Episodes Located: BALDWIN, Alabama in the 1890's

  1. Finding Utopia in Baldwin County
    date November, 1894map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the summer of 1894 there was hope for a new way of life in the reconstruction of the South. E.B. Gaston took a group of people down to Baldwin County, Alabama on the Mobile Bay. A colony free from all forms of private monopoly, a colony where working people could come together to form a single-tax community was founded. Members of the Fairhope Industrial Association were all followers of economist...

  2. Systematic Volunteer Work and Grassroots Efforts in Fairhope
    date January, 1897 to 1897map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Government

    The desire to awaken the noble impulses of humanity and to reform society along socioeconomic lines was something that the founders of Fairhope had as specific goals, outlined by the single tax principle. Just like other progressive movements at the time in the South though, the ideals blueprinted by the intellectuals could not be . In January of 1897 nearly all the members of the Fairhope community...