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1.13.66-69 - Speech
Speech given by E. B. Gaston at the Single Tax Congress in Chicago, Illinois on September 11, 1928 on the topic of Single Tax Colonies or Enclaves.
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1.8.52-55 - Letter
Letter dated 5/16/1900 to E. B Gaston from S. H. Record in Worcester, Pennsylvania. Record is very unhappy with Gaston, the Fairhope Courier and feels Gaston is being misleading when he calls Fairhope a single tax colony. Record does not believe, based on his readings as well as communications from some colonists, that Fairhope is adheering to single tax principles.
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29.12.1-26 - Correspondence
Documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1936. Includes correspondence, a receipt, a booklet titled "Science and Taxation," personal correspondence, and a letter from Congressman Lister Hill about the Tennessee Valley Authority. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.12.6-9 - Booklet
Booklet titled "Science and Taxation" by John T. Giddings described as "A clear and concise exposition of the principles underlying a just method of raising public revenue, based on the philosophy of Henry George as expressed in his great work, 'Progress and Poverty.'" From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.14.19-20 - Correspondence
Letter dated February 15, 1929 to Percy R. Creed of the Union Club of Boston from E.B. Gaston. This letter is interesting because Gaston is responding to Creed's questions about the Fairhope experiment from Gaston's perspective as chief town founder some thirty-five years since Fairhope's founding. Gaston discusses the Colony budget, lessee views on renting land rather than owning, the defunct cooperative store, problems running the Colony (he s...
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30.5.1-27 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated April 1929. Included are a bill to the Town of Fairhope for street improvements, a letter from Ida Menefee of West Virginia about her lease at Satsuma Park, letters of inquiry about Fairhope and other general correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.5.6 - Correspondence
Letter dated Arpil 8, 1929 to F. Homeyer in New Orleans, Louisiana from E. B, Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Gaston is replying to Homeyer's letter of March 28,1929 in which Homeyer is asking questions about transfer of leases and sale of improvements Gaston's reply is instructive to those intrerested in the history of the demonstration of single tax theory in Fairhope at the time. Gaston says ".....under the theo...
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31_1920_1-9 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1920. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes reports, lease information and information reflective of the business of the Corporation. Among other topics discussed: Colony Telphone System, Fairhope Public LIbrary, street and drainage projects, Tax increases on FSTC lands, rent issues and lessee concerns. Signor Cipriano Montoliu sent his Organic City pla...
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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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34_31_001_017 - Booklet
Propectus written in 1912 by Samuel Milliken titled "Halidon" including the constitution, deed of trust, lease and a map of the single tax colony in Maine. Cataloger's note" The chief founder of the Halidon Colony was Fiske Warren, whose father, S. D. Warren was a wealthy paper manufacturer in the area. Fiske Warren visited Fairhope on many occasions, and patterned Halidon after Fairhope, calling Fairhope the "mother" of single tax enclav...
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34_48_003 - Newspaper Clippings
Clipping from the Fairhope Courier, February 18, 1910, page 2, titled "Address Colored Neighbors." The article reports on a meeting at the Anna T. Jeanes School where guests Frank Brown and E. B. Gaston addressed a group of Black citizens about the Single Tax. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Pulbic Library Collection.
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35_26_001_024 - Magazine
"The Standard" magazine (journal) Volume X Number 1 of July 8, 1891. This was "A Weekly Review of Public Affairs" published by William T. Croasdale in New York City. Articles, editorials, letters, interesting advertisements, etc. are in this journal. Many entries are about the Single Tax theory of Henry George. Also included are names which will later factor in the history of the Single Tax Colony of Fairhope, Alabama (e.g. W. E. Brokaw,...
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3.9.64 - Letter
Undated draft of letter (likely 1935) sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with copies to Alabama Senator Hugo Black and Alabama Representative Lister Hill (later senator) from E. B. Gaston. Gaston says the single tax colony established as Fairhope in south Alabama is an example of FDR's call for a "wider distribution of wealth." Gaston commends FDR's support of the Tennessee Valley Authority (founded 1933). Gaston, writing for the...
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40_16_001-002 - Brochures
Foldout brochure dated 1976 titled "Fairhope" and published by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The brochure includes information related to the single tax, the FSTC, Fairhope, the Somers System (in use at the time this was published, a graph of rents, Henry George, a statement by the FSTC's Executive Council, and several photographs. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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40_44_001-006 - Brochures
Brochure titled "Single Tax Principles That Inspired Fairhope's Founders." Written by C. A. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives,
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43_14_001-002 - Documents
Form signed by T. E. Mann from Gladboork, Iowa with no date. The form is a peition requestiing that the House of Representatives appoint a special committee to look into the idea of raising public funds by a single tax on land value. The reverse side of the form is about the Single Tax. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.
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4.8.1-112 - Correspondence
This correspondence (1936-1940) includes letters written by C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, responding to letters of inquiry from various people and organiztions including; The Anti-Single Tax Control Bureau, Auburn University, Cornell University, Rollins College, Marietta College and The Modern School. Many of the inquiries are from students of political economy, Henry George, Single Taxation generally and the...
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5.10.1-234 - Letter
Correspondence of secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1952, (letter W). Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC: letters of inquiry about the Colony, letters of inquiry about leasing lands, records, rents and other day-to-day business correspondence. In addition, there is correspondence between C. A. Gaston and Fiske Warren (and other Warren family members) about pro...
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5.1.1-213 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1927-1953, (I, J and K). Most correspondence is of general FSTC business (rents in arrears, inquiries about single tax, tax returns). In 5.1.80 C. A. Gaston writes about Fairhope's early residents, saying those who came to Fairhope were "advanced thinkers and their various eccentricities made them stand out as distrinct from the common run of citizen." He called early Fairhope a "crank...
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5.1.166-173 - Letter
Correspondence dated May 1950 between G. J. Knapp in Pueblo, Colorado and C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Knapp is interested in putting single tax policies to work in Pueblo. He has met Gaston's father, E. B. Gaston at a conference years ago. These documents provide interesting reading about the single tax effort in Pueblo at mid-20th century, and give information on other single tax demonstations, partucularly...
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