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1901_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1901. The paper was published twice per month on the 1st and 15th. All 24 editions are in this and are 8 pages except for the February 1st paper which is 6 pages. These historic papers are scanned using Optical Character Recongnition (OCR) in pdf format and are keyword searchable using the "find" or "search" function in your browser. 1901 is the year the Fairhope I bay boat steamer was constructed on the...
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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. ...
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1904_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1904. The papers were published on the 1st and 15th of each month. In 1904, the change to the next volume year moved from August 15th to September 1. In the December 1, 1904 issue, an announcement was printed that the Courier would change to a weekly paper published on Fridays effective with the first edition in January, 1905 These historic papers are scanned using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and are...
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1905_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1905. Effective with the January 6, 1905 edition, the paper moved from a twice-monthly (1st and 15th) publication date to a weekly and was published every Friday with an annual subscription rate of $1. The December 1, 1905 edition is a special 16-page Special Winter Resort Edition. These historic papers are scanned using Optical Characater Recognition (OCR) and are searchable using the "find" or "search" func...
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1907_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1907, published every Friday. One issue, the March 15, 1907 paper, is missing but available on newspapers.com. A few pages are faint, but still legible. Papers from November-December have incorrect volume numbers. Interestingly, only one photograph (of the Steamer Fairhope II) was printed other than those which were advertisements. These historic papers are scanned using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ...
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30.25.1-19 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1926. Included is a long letter from W. S. Bryant of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile encouraging the FSTC, the owner of the local phone service, to consider doing business with his company; he makes references to the Bell Telephone system and anti-trust problems that company is having. Also included is a letter from Floy Mann Schermerhorn, the granddaughter of S. S. Mann, one...
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30.33.1-8 - Correspondence
General Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1927 and December 1927. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation acknowledged the death of Dudley Stimpson (1912-1927), the son of Alice Stimpson and the late William Stimpson, and brother of Jesse Stimpson. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.6.12 - Correspondence
Letter dated May 10, 1927 to W. H. Bryant, Manager of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile, Alabama from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Gaston writes the FSTC is not satisfied with the service provided by the Home Telephone Company, and understands that Southern Bell Telephone Company has made calls about possibly doing business in Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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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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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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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_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_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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FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...
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FSTC-V0038 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Winifred Foster Dougherty (1899-1999) dated July 21, 1994 when she was 94 years old. She came to the Fairhope area in 1918. Her mother was Maude Thompson Foster and they lived near Fish River at River Park. She remembers swimming in Fish River and the bay, taking the bay boats to Mobile, riding the People's RR, attending parties and dances at the Casino and Comings Hall. She married Crail Jackson Dougherty in 1927 in Fairho...
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FSTC-V0079 - Video, Digital
Video dated October 3, 2022 titled "Life in Montrose 100 Years Ago" presented by Richard "Dick" Scott, Jr. The presentation was made to the Montrose Historic Preservation Society in Montrose, Alabama. Run time is approximately 22 minutes. Dr. Roy A. "Bo" Kite introduced Mr. Scott. The pictorial-with-captions presentation covers the topics of Montrose houses, streets, mail delivery, education, law enforcement, medical facilities, communicat...
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