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HF77RY GFORGF COLONY OF IO'-V/PEOPLE
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FOUND "FAIRHOPR" ON TITE OF ABANDONED
?A! AS AM A CITY" I" FALDWIN COUNTY, ALA.
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November 15, 1B91-*-
Mobile Press Register, June *?, 1961, Sec. K, pa?e k 250th Mobile Anniversary Sdition
(written as news iter, of the time of occurrence and copied by M. James Stevens March 3, 1975, at Gulfport, Hiss.)
COIONY CAT I FD "FAIR HO PE Air OF GROUP ACROSS BAY
Battles Wharf, Ala., Nov. 15, 189^:-
A group	of 25 settlers arrived	here tolay	to establish	a colony
that	will te	known as "Fairhope."
All but	four of these settlers	ore members	of a group known	as
the Fairhope	Industrial Assn., incorporated in	lova earlier	this	year.
This association is set up alone; the lines of the single tax theory as advanced by Henry George in "Progress and Poverty."
In an ape that seers to be characterised by experiments in Utopian colonies, the principles on which Fairhope is to te based arei
(1)	land values are created bv nnd consequently belonp to the conmunit;
(2)	that which the Individual produces belongs to the individual end
(3)	voluntary co-operation is the preferred plan of distribution.
According to rerr.bers	of tnis first	group of settlers, the	shores
of Mobile nay were chosen	as a site for	this	colony because of	the
climate, the beauty of the area and the cheapness of the land.
F. B. Gaston, secretary of the association and one of two officers with the settlers, said that the Fairhope Assn. has purchased 132 acres of land in Baldwin County. The site, known as "Stapleton's Pasture," consists of 2,800 feet along Motile Bay and is located about half way between Montrose	^nd Battles V.:harf,	Ala. Gaston stated the
land Wj-is bought for $6 an	acre.
Sor.e 50 years ago a group of Procters attempted to found a settlement known as "Alabama City" on the site where Gaston said his prout> will build their colony. This earlier attempt to locate a town has been erased by nature.
Most of the colonists vho arrived here today ere strangers to each other. For the most part they are a poor group?few if any of their possess more than ?500. including -furniture and livestock. Due
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