Fairhope, 1894-1954 : The Story of a Single Tax Colony /

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"On November 15, 1894, a small group of men and women met on a bleak stretch of bay shore near Mobile, Alabama, to establish a colony. It was a decidedly Utopian undertaking in a period characterized by many similar social experiments and ideal communities, most of them failures. This group, wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alyea, Paul Edgar, 1899- (Autor), Alyea, Blanche R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
Single tax.
Alabama > Fairhope.
Fairhope (Ala.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Fairhope single tax theory
  • Background, organization and location of the Fairhope Industrial Association
  • An inauspicious beginning
  • Constitutional amendments and the first division among the colonists
  • The first appraisement
  • Suggestions and demands by the Chicago Single Tax Club, 1897
  • Initial provisions of public services and facilities
  • Incorporation of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation
  • "Do you see the cat?"
  • Incorporation of the town of Fairhope; adjustments of the colony thereto
  • Two Fairhope institutions: the People's Railroad and the School of Organic Education
  • Adoption of the Somers system
  • The Melville suit
  • Attempts to neutralize the effects of the Florida boom
  • The Single Tax Corporation supersedes the Single Tax Colony
  • "Materially, the colony is doing well ..."
  • Accessibility of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation land; some problems of policy
  • Financial effects of limiting payment of property taxes for lessees
  • An opinion on the survival value of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.

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