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1. 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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2. 31_1916_1-42 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Coprporation dated 1916. The Colony Council met aproximately twice per month. Most meetings included approval of the previous meeting's minutes, Treasurer's reports (bills, rent receipts, cash on hand, etc.) lease transfers,Wharfinger's report and general Colony business. Among other issues reported in the 1916 meeting minutes: 1916 Annual Meeting Minutes and financial report, turpentine and stum...

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3. 31_1917_1-10 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1917. These Minutes were published in the Fairhope Courier newspaper and the scans appear as newspaper clippings. The Colony Council met approximately twice per month and included financial reports, lease transfers, and general FSTC business. Annual meeting minutes are included. Among highlights of 1917 are: January 17, 1917. Discussion by FSTC trustees Anne B. Call and A. ...

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4. 31_1918_1-10 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1918. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes general Colony correspondece: financial reports, leases and the Annual Meeting minutes. Among highlights are: January 15, 1918 FSTC addresses how to get money owed the Colony from Marlow Turpentine Company. January 24, 1918: Annual Meeting. Trustees report wharf in bad condition. March 4, 1918: The Town ...

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5. 31_1919_1-10 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1919. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes financial reports, lease information and information about the business of the Corporation. At the Annual Meeting on January 27, 1919, the Colony was reported in good financial shape, the best in many years. The death of one of Fairhope's founders, S. S. Mann was noted. Overall, 1919 was a busy year with the FS...

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6. 31_1921_1-15 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1921. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Included is information on the business of the Corporation: lease transfers, Annual Meeting, Treasurer's Reports, annual elections, etc. Highlights of the year are: Mrs. Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings declined to run again for president of the Corporation. A. H. Mershon was voted president, Nelson Rockwell vice-president, G. W. ...

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7. 31_1922_1-12 - Meeting Minutes

   Meetings MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1922. The Colony Council met approximately every two weeks. The business of the Corporation included routine lease transfers, rent collections, maintenance of the parks and other Colony-owned properties, projects with the Town of Fairhope, consideration of upgrading the Colony-owned telephone system, the Somers System and other topics. Although all interesting, the Minutes for...

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8. 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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9. 31_1926_1-11 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1926. The Corporation usually met twice per month. Includes routine business of the Colony Council, including efforts to beautify Fairhope Avenue and other areas of the town by planting dogwood trees from the woods and azalea bushes donated by Clement L. Coleman. The Colony purchased 160 acres from the S. S. Mann Corporation with Mr. Maddocks paying the $2500 fee. St...

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10. 31_1926_1-11_Page_09 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 18, 1926 in which the Colony Council, anticipating the opening of the Cochrane Bridge across Mobile Bay (aka the causeway), passed a resolution favoring the building of a road from the bridgehead of the Cochrane Bridge south along the eastern shore. This road would be named Eastern Shore Boulevard (now Scenic Highway 98). Note: the Cochrane Bridge opened June 15, 1927. ...

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11. 31_1927_1-10 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1927; the Corporation usually met twice per month. Topics include routine matters of business as well as: Representatives of the Fairhope Transportation and Excursion Company, which had help fund an expansion of the pierhead in 1922, came before the Colony Council twice in 1927 requesting that they be paid and suggested the payment come from any funds left from the defunct Pe...

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12. 31_1929_1-13 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1929 including the routine business of the Corporation: financial statements, lease transfers, annual meeting minutes. Among other topics of interest: Several issues about the Colony Cemetery were brought up in 1929 including the proposal to start charging "outside people" (i.e. non-members and non-lessees) for burial plots, notifying Walter H. Mask of Mask Mortuary to cease bu...

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13. 31_1935_1-8 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1935. Includes routine FSTC correspondence, annual meeting minutes, lease transfers and financial statements. The Library was authorized to use funds from the Whitehead trust to enclose first the south porch and then the north porch for more shelving space for books. The Whitehead trust was given to the Fairhope Public Library and was $3000 less attorney's fees, and the intere...

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14. 3.22.1-93 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, (letter Mc), 1930-1935. Includes letters of inquiry and correspondence on the Houston Plan (p 11-15); Llano Colony (p.55); road issues (p. 60-61); and a speech on the Pittsburg Plan scheduled with Mayor William N. McNair, Mayor of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (pp 63-93).

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15. 36_5_001_003 - Petition

    Signed petition for a six-mile road going west from Silverhill, Alabama, across Fish River, and to intersect with connecting roads to Fairhope, Alabama and Daphne, Alabama. The petition was signed by seventeen people, including Belforest farmers A. A. Corte and Julius Corte, and Fairhopers Roy Rockwell and A. R. Rockwell. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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16. BSS.238-239 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by photographer Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, circa 1900, of Fish River at Marlow. The card is addressed to Mr. R. Sundberg in Houston, Texas and mentions the poor roads resulting in teams not being able to deliver mail. The one cent postage stamp is clearly visible. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection.

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17. BSS.614-615 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled A Fairhope View. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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18. BSS.618-619 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of Shore Drive in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives. A clearer version of the picture is included with the original version.

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19. BSS.701-702 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the road from Fairhope to Battles. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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20. DBJ-0247 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph by Arthur M. Dealy titled "Views Near Fairhope: Old Still Road." This location is near what is today Scenic 98 (Mobile Street) a bit north of Tatumville (Big Head) Gully. Old Still Road refers to turpentine stills which operated in the area as early as Colonial times. From the Dealy Brown Jennings Photo Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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