Freddy Returns to His Favorite Place in America for Some History and Beauty
Freddy returns to Fairhope, Alabama, enjoying history, beauty, football, and peaceful sunsets.
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Fairhope, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Baldwin. Associated ZIP codes: 36532, 36533.
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Fairhope is in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Region: South Alabama
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36532, 36533
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Fairhope was founded as an experiment. On November 15, 1894, a party of 19 adults and nine children arrived on the bluffs of Mobile Bay's eastern shore to start a model community based on the ideas of economist Henry George. Led by Ernest Berry Gaston, a young Iowa journalist and Populist Party officer, the Fairhope Industrial Association aimed, in the words of its constitution, "to establish and conduct a model community or colony, free from all forms of private monopoly." The name came from a member's remark that they had a "fair hope" of success. Instead of selling land, the colony leased it on long terms and used the rents to pay its members' taxes, a working model of George's "single tax," and the bayfront was set aside as public land from the start.
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The colony became the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in 1904, and the town drew reformers, writers and artists. In 1907 educator Marietta Johnson founded the School of Organic Education, which taught children free of charge; John Dewey visited in 1913 and praised the school in his 1915 book Schools of Tomorrow. Sherwood Anderson, Clarence Darrow and Upton Sinclair were among the visitors who made Fairhope a winter gathering place. Fairhope Avenue even appeared as a property on a 1910 version of The Landlord's Game, a forerunner of Monopoly. The Town of Fairhope was incorporated on April 25, 1908, alongside the colony rather than replacing it. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation still operates today, holding about 1,800 leaseholds on more than 4,000 acres. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Fairhope Wikipedia: Fairhope, Alabama
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30.5011600, -87.8835460
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