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1. 1.13.43-45 - Reports

   Unsigned Report of the three Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, addressed to the members, likely written by Anne Bellagee Call in 1926 or early 1927. (E.B. Gaston's trip to Copenhagen in summer 1926 is referenced in the letter as a recent event.) The Trustees approve of the measures the FSTC Executive Council has recently taken to "stop the wave of (land) speculation that has menaced us." The Trustees warn that the Corporatio...

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2. 1.15.50-53 - Reports

   Reports of Secretary & Trustees, to Members of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, at Annual Meeting, 1/26/1931. E. B. Gaston, Secretary reported that land speculation necessitated the increase in rents making it more difficult for lessees to pay their rents. The State Tax Commission proposed nearly doubling the Corporations assessment leading the Secretary to see that holding so much bay frontage for use as park lands as a liability for the Corpora...

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3. 31_1925_1-11 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1925. The Corporation usually met twice per month. Included is the routine business of the Corporation as well as discussion of work on roads (connecting Greeno Road to Foley and the proposed Silverhill to Robertsdale Road-Highway 104), streets, Wharf improvements (enlarging the pierhead, hiring a night watchman for the summer, establishing fees for cars on the Wharf), dissolution o...

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4. 31_1945_1_50 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for 1945. Includes routine business, lease transfers and surrenders, financial information and other information. Some topics: As moved and carried in the December 20, 1945 meeting, there were no rental changes for 1946 and the multiplier remained the same. In the September 20, 1945 meeting, the FSTC adopted a resolution authorizing an Oil, Gas and Mineral Rights lease on Colony lan...

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5. 31_1946_1_63 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for 1946. Includes routine business, lease transfers and surrenders, financials, and other information. Some topics: Lydia J. Newcomb Comings, past president of the FSTC, president of the Library Association and librarian, co-founder of the School of Organic Education, author, teacher and founder of the Baldwin County Historical Society died on September 21, 1946. J. A. Patterson, f...

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6. 5.6.1-55 - Scrapbook

   Scrapbook (2 of 3), likely of E. B. Gaston (although archival notes of physical folder shows C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1935. Includes clippings from newspaper The Forum (and possibly No Taxes, although headings are cut off) on topics such as Georgist issues, taxes, politics of the day in relation to taxation and land valuation, and Upton Sinclair. These newspapers are edited by L. D. Beckwith. 5.6.4-5 is a letter to the editor of The Fo...

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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. ii.10.117-118 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 6/28/1894 from Calven B. Power, Pa. He writes a letter for Gaston to read at the picnic on the 4th of July. He says in letter that we do not enjoy "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". The land tenure is a fraud. He gives an example of his father giving him a small farm in Allegheny Co., Pa. He sold it 26 years ago, the coal and surface. God made them both, the community produced their value, land t...

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9. ii.6.59-60 - Letter

   Letter dated 06/10/1894 to E. B. Gaston from Henry Hawkins of Armada, Arkansas. Hawkins is "desirous of living with souls more congenial " and is interesed in the Fairhope Colony. He wants Gaston to consider his area as the site and discusses the land, water, crops, etc in Arkansas. He says there are "no land speculators here, but they will no doubt be here before long."

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10. iv.2.82-83 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/21/1897 to E. B. Gaston from Charles G. Foord of the Chicago Single Tax Club. This letter continues correspondence suggesting the Fairhope Industrial Association change its constitution to become an entity more closely demonstrating single tax principles. Foord is suggesting that as the present constitution is written, non-resident members could demand dividends for their shaires of FIA stock, since they are not living on the lan...

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11. iv.4.67-70 - Letter

    Letter dated 7/25/1897 to E. B. Gaston from Prof. Hiram B. Loomis in Evanston, Illinois discussing Fairhope's viability as a single tax colony as debated by the Chicago Single Tax Club. Loomis says "tales I have heard against Fairhope have killed themselves" up to this point. On the other had, he has heard from J. H. Springer and W. E. Brokaw who are against Fairhope, as is Clarence Moeller. He says Moseller still believes Gaston is worki...

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12. PMG_13938-13967 - Student Paper

    Student paper dated December 7, 1982 by Ford Stephens titled "The Doorkeeper of Utopia: E. B. Gaston and the Immigration of Fairhope." The paper was submitted in partial fulfilment for a Fairhope Seminar course taught at the University of Virginia by Dr. Paul M. Gaston, Professor of History. Stephens thesis centers on the first three decades of the development of the Single Tax Colony in Fairhope, Alabama, and founder E. B. Gaston's efforts ...

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13. vii.3.14 - Letter

    Letter to James Herbert Bigelow of Cincinnati from Oscar Ameringer of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on December 31, 1908. Mr. Ameringer is a committee secretary of the socialist party of Oklahoma and would like suggestions on formulating land policies. The Socialists there are against the proposed sale of school lands and the referendum permitting the sale was defeated. Now they need to formulate a plan for the disposition of three million acres o...

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