Related Records

1. 1908_Courier - Newspaper

   Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1908. 52 issues were published; Couriers for May 1, 8, and 15 all have the same Issue Number of 36. May 8, May 15 and October 9 editions are missing from this collection but available on the Fairhope Public Library site (fairhopelibrary.org) and newspapers.com These historic papers are scanned using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and are keyword searchable using the 'find' function in your browser. S...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
2. FSTC-0173 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph c. 1908-1910 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of Bathing in Mobile Bay. The picture shows people swimming in the Bay off Pier #2, The Manure Pier. The Manure Wharf (also called the Short Wharf) was built in 1908 to accept boat loads of manure fertilizer and was located north of the big wharf. The Fairhope Red Wharf is in the background, The pier head and some of the pier were destroyed when the General Lee bay boat steamer bu...

   Record Type: Photo