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TO7RY GEORGF COLONY OF IOVA^PEOPLE
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FOUND "FAIRHOPR" ON TITE OF ABANDONED "A! ABAMA CITY" I" FALD^IN COUNTY, ALA. November 15? 139*+
Mobile Press Register, June *+, 1961, See. K, paee U 250th Mobile Anniversary Fdition
(written as news iter, of the time of occurrence and copied by r. James r.tevens March 3, 1975, at Gulfport, Miss.)
CCJ ONY CAMFD "FAIRHOPR Air OF TROUP ACRCr.S BAY
Battles Wharf, Ala., Nov. 15, lB9l+:-
A group	of 25	settlers arrived	here today to	establish a colony
that will be	known	as "Fairhope."
All but four of these settlers are members of a group knovn as the Fairhope Industrial Assn., incorporated in Iova earlier this year. This association is set up along the lines of the single tax theory as advanced by Henry George in "Progress and Poverty."
In an ape that seers to be characterised ty experiments in Utopian colonies, the principles on vhich Fairhope is to be based arei
(1)	land value? are created by nnd consequently belonp to the community
(2)	that vhich the individtial produces belongs to the individual and
(3)	voluntary co-operation is the preferred plan of distribution.
Clirate, ^eauty Cited
According to members	of this first	group of settlers, the	shores
of Mobile nay vers chosen	as a site for	this	colony because of	the
climate, the	beauty of the area and	the cheapness	of the land.
E. B. Gaston,	secretary of the	association and one of two
officers vith 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 Mobile Bay and is located about half vay between Montrose	pnd Battles VJharf,	Ala. Gaston stated the
land vns bought for S6 an	acre.
T'srlier Traces Erased
Some 50 years ago a group of promoters attempted to found a settlement known as "Alabama City" on the site where Gaston said his group vill build their colony. This earlier attempt to locate a town has teen erased by nature.
lost of the colonists who arrived hare today are strangers to each other. For the most part they are a poor group?fev if any of them possess more than ?500, including -furniture and livestock. Due to the barren state of the land they have chosen they vill h^ve to li\
theyVn^t hoS! ?"	*	fev of the	arrived	until