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34_48_001-002 - Postcard
Postcard advertising the Centennial Celebration of the Friends School (Quakers) in Fairhope, Alabama. Date: November 12, 2017. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Public Library Collection.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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40_46_001-006 - Booklet
Copy a The Olney Current, a booklet published by the Olney Friends School, a Quaker School in Barnesville, Ohio. Dated 1993. An article written by Fairhoper Ruth Battey Rockwell, is about Reuben L. Rockwell on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Mr. Rockwell was a graduate of the Olney School. His experiences in Fairhope and Costa Rica are included, as well as details about his family, various jobs and other details of his long life. From ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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6.17.1-217 - Correspondence
Correspondence (A) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1961. 6.17.44 contains some interesting information about Reverand August Dellgren who was one of first contingent to arrive at Fairhope in 1894. He stayed only until the following April. He returned to Sweden briefly, remarried and by 1904 was the minister of a Unitarian Church in Chicago where he died in April 1917. 6.17.51-54 contains an interesting March 1960 article ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH_0054 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Asa Staples (1832-1918) in his buggy leaving his house at 159 Fels Avenue. Mr. Staples, a widower, moved to Fairhope, Alabama in 1906 from Iowa. He was a Quaker and is buried in the Friends' cemetery in Fairhope. Mr. Staples' housekeeper was Mrs. Melissa Bemis; this cataloger speculates that could be Mrs. Bemis in the picture. (Mrs. Bemis was the sister of Fairhoper Marie Howland.) From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporati...
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FMH-V1011 - Video, Digital
Oral history video, Part 2, by William Frank "Frank" Laraway (1933-2019). Part 1 is available at FMH-V1010. Laraway's story starts with his marriage in 1963, return to Fairhope from Michigan in 1965, and the establishment of his career as an architect.. For the rest of this detailed interview, Laraway talks about his early life in Fairhope in the 1940s and 1950s: farming and raising chickens (commercially), Organic School, friends, outi...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-0141 - Photograph, Digital
Presentation slide with labels about churches and religion in Fairhope, Alabama. Includes a Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, photograph of the Christian Church, the Quakers building a church, and the Baha'i Faith sign. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-1527-1528 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Franklin (Frank) Rockwell in Fairhope, Alabama. Mr. Rockwell was a member of the Friends (Quaker) community which moved to Fairhope beginning in 1909, leasing Fairhope Single Tax Corporation land in east Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Skinner Collection, courtesy of Edwin C. Skinner.
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FSTC-1573-1574 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph postcard of cousins at Rockwell Reunion in Fairhope, Alabama. The Rockwell family who were members of the Friends Meeting (Quakers) moved to Fairhope c. 1910. Back Row L-R: Benjamin Rockwell, Gertrude Tow, Harris Rockwell, Amelia Rockwell, Josephine Smith, Marion Peckham. Front Row L-R: Arthur Rockwell Clara Rockwell, Roy Rockwell, Otelia Rockwell, Edwin Rockwell, Luella Rockwell, Herbert Hill, Ethel Hill. From the Fairhope Singl...
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FSTC-V0037 - Video, Digital
This video has two oral histories: First is Ruth E. Rockwell and starting at 1 hour, 31 minutes and 57 seconds is Philip McCarthy. Note: Search terms listed below this entry include terms from both videos and are not able to be cataloged separately due to original format. INTERVIEW of Ruth E. Rockwell dated May 12, 1994. Mrs. Rockwell's family moved from Iowa to Fairhope in 1913 after learning about the community from other family member...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0039 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated August 10, 1994 with 97-year old Lucille Edna Edgerton Tuveson (1897-1996). Interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Growing up, Mrs. Tuveson had moved with her parents from New Mexico, where her father worked on a cattle ranch, and then on to Florida, where she remembered the terrible poverty in the Jacksonville area. Mrs. Tuveson came to Fairhope in 1918 from Florida because her uncle knew of Quake...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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PMG-4700-4748 - Documents
Information about the establishment of the Monteverde community in Costa Rica in 1951. The main group of settlers were Quakers from Fairhope, Alabama, who left the United States because of their pacifist beliefs. Included is an article titled "North American Quakers in Costa Rica, A Community Study of Monteverde" by Paul E. Masters, Jr., published in "South Eastern Latin Americanist Quarterly, from June, 1989. Also included are two accounts of...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0001-0002 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers) held on February 21, 1917 at Orange Grove, Alabama, just east of Fairhope, Alabama. This is the first meeting of the Fairhope Friends (Quakers). Establishment of Fairhope Friends : These Minutes document the organizational meeting of local Fairhope-area Quakers. The Stillwater Monthly Friends Meeting (Ohio) and the Paullina Monthly Friends Meeting (Iowa) jointly granted...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0002-0003 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers) held on March 7, 1917 held "near Fairhope, Alabama." Herman J. Battey was appointed to the position of Clerk for the Metting for one year. Meeting Place:The issue of a meeting place was decided; the men Friends would meet on the Meeting House porch and the women Friends inside the building. The other option to install a canvas partition in the building for $7.00 was...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0003 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes for two meetings of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers) on April 11, 1917 and May 9, 1917 held "near" Fairhope, Alabama. The Clerk, Herman J. Battey, reported that the previous month's Minutes had been forwarded to the Stillwater Friends Meeting (In Ohio). (The Stillwater Meeting had supervision over the Fairhope Friends.) From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Friends Quaker Collectio...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0003-0005 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers) held near Fairhope, Alabama on June 6, 1917. Herman Battey was Clerk for the Day. At this meeting, several important issue were discussed. 1) Several Friends peititoned to have their membership moved to the Fairhope Friends Meeting, 2) The Fairhope Friends Meeting was formally established, and 3) land for a cemetery was leased from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0005-0006 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated July 11, 1917 of the Fairhope Preparative Friends Meeting (Quakers). Herman J. Battey was the Clerk for the Day. Cemetery: Topics for this meeting included a report on the lease for the burying ground. Herman J. Battey released a half acre on the south end of his Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (FSTC) lease for use as a Friends cemetery. The lease transfer has not yet been finalized. From the Fairhope Single Tax Co...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0006-0008 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated August 8, 1917 of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers). Herman J. Battey was Clerk for the Day. Cemetery: The issue of the Friends cemetery or "burying ground" was discussed. Herman J. Battey released one-half acre of his Fairhope Single Tax Corporation lease for use by the Friends as a cemetery. The lease-transfer process is still ongoing. Meeting House:The group discussed the need for a new Mee...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0008 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated September 5, 1917 of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers). Herman J. Battey was Clerk for the Day. No reports. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Friends Quaker Collection.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0008-0010 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated October 10, 1917 of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers). Herman J. Battey was Clerk for the Day. Primary School: The Stillwater Monthly Meeting of Friends (the Quaker Meeting in Stillwater, Ohio which oversaw the Fairhope Meeting) met to address the request to have a Primary School for Fairhope Friends. A committee of Stillwater members and Fairhope members was appointed. The Fairhope members were Sa...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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QuakerFF_0010-0011 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated November 7, 1917 of the Fairhope Preparative Meeting of Friends (Quakers). Herman J. Battey was Clerk for the Day. Meeting House: The Stillwater Monthly Meeting of Friends (located in Stillwater, Ohio) which surpervised the Fairhope Preparatory Meeting, approved a request to build a larger meeting house, and directed that an application for $700 be made to the Charleston Fund to be used to help fund the structure. T...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
