Fairhope, 1894-1954 : the story of a single tax colony /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Alyea, Paul Edgar, 1899- (Author), Alyea, Blanche R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[University, Alabama] : University of Alabama Press, 1956.
Subjects:	Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Fairhope (Ala.) Single tax. Impôt unique. Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Single tax Alabama > Fairhope United States, Alabama, Baldwin, Fairhope > History. United States, Alabama, Baldwin, Fairhope > Taxation.
Online Access:	https://archive.org/details/fairhope1894alye

Table of Contents:

Preface
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 th Single Tax Colony
"Materially, the colony is doing well ... "
Accessibility of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation land; som problems of policy
Financial effects of limiting payment of property taxes for lessees
An opions on the survival value of the Fairhop Single Tax Corporation
Appendices
Index.