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1. 29.10.2-3 - Correspondence

   Documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1934. Includes a receipt dated February 28,1934 from E.B. Gaston to FSTC Treasurer E. C. Wolcott for $6. Also includes a letter dated February 26, 1934 to E. B. Gaston from J. H. Webb, District Counsel for the Hone Owners Loan Association saying that J. E. Rolston, District Manager for the HOLA had reported to him that FSTC lessees were not eligibile for HOLA loans. Webb ...

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2. 29.13.1-12 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1934 comprised of letters and one telegram concerning the decision by the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to not allow participation by FSTC lessees in the program. The decision was a great disadvantage to the lessees personally, and a blow to the FSTC which fought the decision with the end result being an amendment to the HOLC act allowing Fairhope's participation. There are in...

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3. 29.15.1-16 - Correspondence

   Correspondence dated June 1934 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The correspondence in this folder deals exclusively with the federal Home Owner's Loan Corporation and the issue that lessees of the FSTC were not eligible for these loans. See 29.13.1-12 for continuing correspondence about this issue from July 1934. Correspondents include E. B. Gaston, Senator Hugo Black, Congressman Lister Hill, HOLC Mobile District Counsel J. H Webb...

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4. 29.20.1-12 - Correspondence

   Correspondence about the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLA) regarding the eligbility of lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to partcipate in the loan program. Also included in an amendment to the HOLC bill which would change wording so FSTC lessees would be eligible. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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5. 29.9.1-10 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February,1936. See 29.9.7-10 for separately cataloged letters of interest between E. B. Gaston and L. R. Clements. Clements was the first president of the Fairhope Industrial Assoication. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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6. 30.22.1-14 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1927. Included is a resolution adopted by the FSTC about roads legislation, the Eastern Shore Boulevard Bill, coming up in the state legislature, several letters about the accident Mrs. L. E. Brown had on the Fairhope Wharf which she attributed to poor lighting and wants compensation, and other general FSTC correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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7. 31_1920_1-9_Page_1 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 5, 1905 in which the Corporation passed a resolution supporting a bill Alabama Congreesman George Huddleston introduced in Congress related to the Single Tax. Researchers may be interested in reading the resolution written from perspective of the mature Fairhope Colony. Please click on the thumbnail images to see the documents. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporatio...

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