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1901_Courier_Page_037 - Photograph, Digital
Photographs printed in the March 15, 1901 Fairhope Courier newspaper of the Fairhope House Hotel, the home of William J. de la Mare, the water tank and Mershon Brothers store, Fairhope Avenue, Jackson's Oak, the Fairhope Wharf and A. H. Mershon's house. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Courier Collection.
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1903_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1903. The paper was published on the 1st and 15th of each month. All editions are available. The December 15, 1903 paper has a four page supplement about "the Only Colony of Single-Taxers in the World" reprinted by permission from the Judge Publishing Company, October 8, 1903 edition of Leslie's Weekly. A new press was acquired for the Courier in 1903 resulting in more efficient and better quality printing. ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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30.16.1-12 - Correspondence
General correspondence dated January 1926 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.27.1-15 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1928 and April 1928. Included are: a petition to amend the constitution to change the date of the annual elections, that the list of non-resident members be updated annually, a request by the the Town of Fairhope to change the name of Powell Street to Dogwood Terrace, and the FSTC Treasurer's Report for March 1928. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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30.30.1-9 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated May 1928 and June 1928. Included is a letter to S. H. Gibbons, Baldwin County Agent, from E B. Gaston who infers that plans are underway to locate a site for a "demonstration farm" (i.e. Experimental Station) in the Fairhope area, and Gaston says arrangements can be made to secure land on favorable terms. Another letter notifies the Town Council and Mayor of Fairhope that the FSTC E...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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30.32.1-13 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated May 1929. Among the documents in this file are several letters between the FSTC and the Town of Fairhope addressing street issues, and there is a letter to Capt Ed Roberts regarding a possible FSTC referendum. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.36.1-26 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 1927 and November 1927. 30.36.14 is a letter dated October 18, 1927 from E. B. Gaston to C. L. Coleman, who is in a Sanitarium in Illinois. Coleman is an early pioneer settler of Fairhope.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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30.37.1-18 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1928. Some letters concern an upcoming amendment vote to the FSTC constitution - correspondents include Fiske Warren, Gaston, and J. H. Webb about this issue. Several letters between Gaston and Professor J. E. Conn of Auburn Univeristy (then Alabama Polytchnic Institute) are interesting as Gaston discusses the application of the single tax theory in Fairhope. ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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 ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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_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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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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31_1923_1-14 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1923. (Note pages 13 and 14 contain minutes for the following year, 1924 - the rest of that year can be viewed at 31_1924_1-10.) The 1923 Minutes contain the general business of the Colony; meetings were held twice per month. Some highlights include:objections to enlarging the electric plant because of increased traffic at the bayfront, printing maps of Colony lands,naming of...
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31_1924_1-10 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1924. Includes general correspondence of the Corporation, financial reports, annual meeting mintues, Lessees' meeting minutes of October 17, 1924, and routine business conducted by the Colony Council. The FSTC usually met twice per month. Note: The first page of the 1924 Minutes can be found at 31_1923_1-14. Treasurer G. W. Wood died early in 1924; Mrs. Minnie Brown stepped...
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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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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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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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31_1928_1-8 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1928. The Corporation usually met twice per month. Includes routine business of the FSTC, minutes from the annual meeting, issues about streets, membership (Dr. C. G. Godard's application was denied), parks, rent for 1929, mention of Louis G. Post's death and the copyright rights to the Fairhope I Love You song. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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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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