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40_57_081-083 - Article
Article dated 1996 by Sonny Brewer titled "Coming Full Circle" which appeared in the Red Bluff Review. Brewer introduces the reader to Henry Stuart, the "Hermit" of Montrose, a weaver who left Idaho in 1923 and moved to the land he named Tolstoy Park in Montrose. Nine years later, in 2005, Brewer's novel about Henry James Stuart titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" was published. The book heightened interest in Stuart, so much so that, through...
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40_57_081-083 - Article
Article dated 1996 by Sonny Brewer titled "Coming Full Circle" which appeared in the Red Bluff Review. Brewer introduces the reader to Henry Stuart, the "Hermit" of Montrose, a weaver who left Idaho in 1923 and moved to the land he named Tolstoy Park in Montrose. Nine years later, in 2005, Brewer's novel about Henry James Stuart titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" was published. The book heightened interest in Stuart, so much so that, through...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH_0973 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated March, 1927, of Emma Mann (Mrs. T. E. Mann) and her granddaughter, Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt). They are visiting Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart), the "Hermit" of Montrose (also known as Ye Olde Weaver) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Mrs. Mann's husband, T. E. Mann, was the son of Shuah S. Mann, one of Fairhope's founders and a member of the two-man Locating Committee which found the site for the new Colony of Fairho...
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FMH_0974 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated March 1927 of Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Bonnie was visiting Henry Stuart (known as the "Hermit" of Montrose and Ye Olde Weaver) with her grandmother, Emma Mann. Bonnie is standing by Henry James Stuart's sundial. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History
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FMH_0975 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated March 1927 of little Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt) and Mrs. Higgins in Fairhope, Alabama. See FSTC-1385-1386 for another copy of this picture. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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FMH_1928_Diary_0002 - Diary
Diary for 1928 written by Henry Stuart (1858-1946) of Montrose, Alabama. Mr Stuart, sometimes known as The Hermit of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver and a Modern Thoreau, made entries every day. Henry James Stuart was 65 years old when he moved from Nampa, Idaho to Montrose, Alabama in 1923 for health reasons. Montrose is a short distance from Fairhope, a single tax colony, which might have had some bearing on why he chose this location (Stuart was...
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FMH_1929_Diary_0003 - Diary
Diary for 1929 written by Henry Stuart (1858-1946) of Montrose, Alabama. Mr. Stuart, sometimes known as The Hermit of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver and a Modern Thoreau, made entries every day. Henry James Stuart was 65 years old when he moved from Nampa, Idaho to Montrose, Alabama for health reasons in 1923. Montrose is close to Fairhope, a single-tax colony (Stuart was an admirer or Henry George), which might have had some bearing on his decisi...
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FMH_1934_Diary_0004 - Diary
Diary for 1934 written by Henry Stuart (1858-1946) of Montrose, Alabama. Mr. Stuart, sometimes known as The Hermit of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver and a Modern Thoreau, made entries every day. Henry James Stuart was 65 years old when he moved from Nampa, Idaho to Montrose, Alabama in 1923 for health reasons. Montrose is near Fairhope, a single tax colony, so that might have had some bearing on why Stuart, an admirer of Henry George, chose to loc...
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FMH_2001 - Photograph, Digital
Personal stationery of Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946). H. J. Stuart Tolstoy Park Montrose, Alabama This document was included in a scrapbook donated to the Museum of History by Stuart's family. Search keywords "Stuart Scrapbook" in these online archives for photographs from the scrapbook. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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FMH_2056-2057 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated August,1936 of Henry Stuart (1858-1946) in front of his Round House in Montrose, Alabama. Stuart constructed the house himself in 1925-1926; details of the front door of the structure are clearly visible showing steps down to the entrance. Stuart's skillet and cup are hanging on the oak tree. Henry James Stuart named his property Tolstoy Park. Here, the barefoot Mr. Stuart is in conversation with Converse Harwell and potter E...
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FMH_2058-2059 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated August 1936 of Henry Stuart and Converse Harwell looking at Stuart's sundial outside his Round House in Montrose, Alabama. Stuart refers to Harwell as "my new friend" a friendship which continued until Stuart's death in 1946. See FMH_2056-2057 for a related picture of Harwell's visit with Henry James Stuart (along with his wife, potter Edith Harwell) in these online archives. This photograph is from a scrapbook donated t...
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FMH_2060-2061 - Photograph, Digital
Two interior photographs which are not dated, but likely in the 1930s, of Henry Stuart. Mr. Stuart (Henry James Stuart) is pictured inside his cabin, sometimes referred to as his workshop. This was located very near the Round House, his home in Montrose, Alabama and located on his Tolstoy Park property. These photographs are from a scrapbook compiled by Stuart's family and donated to the Fairhope Museum of History. Over the years, Stuart s...
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FMH_2062 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph, not dated but likely 1930s, of Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart) in Montrose, Alabama on his property which he called Tolstoy Park. This photograph is from a scrapbook compiled by Stuart's family and donated to the Fairhope Museum of History. Over the years, Stuart sent pictures to his sons in Oregon about his life in the Fairhope-Montrose area (1923-1944). Search "Stuart Scrapbook" in these online archives for many other interes...
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FMH_2063-2064 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph by Stewart the Picture Man of "Some Old Guard Single Taxers and Friends" posed outside the Tea Tile Restaurant on November 29, 1927 in Fairhope, Alabama. The ladies are seated with the portrait of Henry George propped on the center chair. E. B. Gaston stands behind George's picture. Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart), dressed in a suit with a trimmed beard is identified with the "X," and Prescott A. Parker (P. A. Parker) stands on...
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FMH_2065-2066 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph post card (aerial view) by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of Fairhope Avenue looking west/southwest to Mobile Bay. To take this aerial view, Stewart is standing in the water tower in downtown Fairhope. Henry James Stuart (the "Hermit" of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver) sent this Frank Stewart picture to his family. Stuart has marked an "O" on the roof of the Pinequat Shop where he buys kumquat candy. The "S" is the People's Cooperat...
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FMH_2067-2068 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated May 2, 1926 and taken by a Mr. Brooks of Henry James Stuart in Tolstoy Park, Montrose, Alabama. Mr. Brooks and friends were visiting to see Stuart's recently completed Round House. Henry Stuart is pictured holding a bowl of strawberries which he has just picked for supper from his "concrete garden." The information on the back of the picture explains Stuart's irrigation system, the two water barrels (bbl), and the landscape. ...
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FMH_2069-2070 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph, partially in shadow, of the Round House (Hermit House) built built by Henry James Stuart on his property, Tolstoy Park, in Montrose, Alabama. The picture was taken by Miss Harmony Huffman in April, 1927 who was visiting Henry Stuart with her family. The photograph is included in a scrapbook compiled by Stuart's family and donated to the Fairhope Museum of History. Over the years, Stuart sent pictures to his sons in Oregon about...
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FMH_2071-2072 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated November, 1923 of Grace E. Parker in Montrose, Alabama. Mrs. Parker and her husband Prescott A. Parker (P. A. Parker) were early settlers of Fairhope (1900), and later moved to Montrose. Mr. and Mrs. Parker were friends and neighbors of Henry Stuart of Tolstoy Park in Montrose. The Parkers assisted Stuart when he moved to Baldwin County in 1923 by locating and arranging for the purchase of his ten acres. In this photograph...
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FMH_2073-2074 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph taken by Henry Stuart (aka Henry James Stuart) on July 25, 1924 in Montrose, Alabama showing the house and print shop of his nearest neighbors, Prescott A. Parker (P. A. Parker) and wife Grace E. Parker. Mr. Parker is seen sitting in a swing on the front porch of the house (left building). The Parkers were early settlers in Fairhope, Alabama, and later moved to the Volanta-Montrose area. They assisted Stuart in finding the ten-acre...
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