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1. 3.34.1-37 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1913-1936, mostly E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Corporation responding to letters of inquiry about Fairhope, acquiring leased lands, requesting subscriptions to the Fairhope Courier newspaper, the School of Organic Education (Organic School), and other similar matters. Most documents are in the 1931-1936 time period.

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2. 3.34.14 - Letter

   Letter dated 6/23/1935 to Virgil D. Allen from E. B. Gaston. Allen, who is executive secretary of the Economic League of Ohio, has invited Gaston to attend a dinner at the Henry George School of Social Science. Gaston sends his regrets.

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3. 4.13.1-173 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (Ha-Hc) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1936-1955. 4.13.98-134 contains correspondence with the Henry George Foundation of America. 4.13.135-144 contains correspondence with the Henry George News. 4.13.135-144 contains correspondence with the Henry George School of Social Science.

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4. 5.1.1-213 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1927-1953, (I, J and K). Most correspondence is of general FSTC business (rents in arrears, inquiries about single tax, tax returns). In 5.1.80 C. A. Gaston writes about Fairhope's early residents, saying those who came to Fairhope were "advanced thinkers and their various eccentricities made them stand out as distrinct from the common run of citizen." He called early Fairhope a "crank...

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5. 5.8.1-194 - Letter

   Correspondence of E. B .Gaston and C. A. Gaston, secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1934-1954. Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC including inquiries about the Colony, requests for leases, rent bills, and some correspondence with Georgist organizations. 5.8.72-73 are letters from the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in 1945 and 1946 offering current information about the school and soliciting f...

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6. 7.12.1-5 - Correspondence

   Letter dated 11/22/1946 to the faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science, from its acting director Robert Clancy, providing information about the two largest "Single Tax enclaves" in the United States - Fairhope and Arden, Delaware - in order to assist them in answering questions from their students as to where Henry George's principles have been tried.

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7. 7.15.1-259 - Newspaper Article

   This folder contains miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles and editorials dated 1953-1972, many of them reproduced by the Henry George School of Social Science. These include topics of interest to Georgists including land value taxation and speculation among other things. There is an article entitles "Archimedes" by Mark Twain. There are Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Annual Reports for 1967, 1970 and 1971. There is a report of the Fai...

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8. 7.17.1-75 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (H-K) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1954-1971. 7.17.67-68 contains newspaper clippings about John F. Kennedy's address to the Florida Chamber of Commerce on 11/19/1963.

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9. 7.19.1-169 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (A-B) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1955-1970.

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10. 8.7.1-116 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1955-1969, letter 'M.' 8.7.5. mentions the date "The Fairhope" book by the Alyeas goes on sale ($4.50), and Cornelius Gaston's opinion of it. 8.7 contains briefs to the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United State in a suit brought by J. R. Mason.

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11. 9.3.1-179 - Correspondence

    Correspondence between the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and the Henry George School of Social Science dated 1960-1991.

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12. FSTC-V0036 - Video, Digital

    Video interview dated January 2, 1992 of Bruce Evans, Jr. and Paula Alyea Evans who moved to Fairhope, Alabama in 1952. Bruce Evans, who taught mathematics and statistics at Murphy High School in Mobile, was also the cashier for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. He graduated from the Hentry George School of Social Sciences in New York. Paula Evans taught economics at Fairhope High School. She was the daughter of Paul E. and Blanche...

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