Fairhope, Alabama "Fairhope"

Fairhope .

Fairhope, Alabama Fairhope Public Library Fairhope Public Library Location in Baldwin County and the state of Alabama Location in Baldwin County and the state of Alabama Fairhope is a town/city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, on a sloping plateau, along the cliffs and shoreline of Mobile Bay.

The 2010 census lists the populace of the town/city as 15,326. Fairhope is a principal town/city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley micropolitan area, which includes all of Baldwin County.

In 2016, Fairhope was titled the best small town in the South by Southern Living magazine. Fairhope was established in November 1894 on the site of the former Alabama City as a radical Georgist "Single-Tax" colony by the Fairhope Industrial Association, a group of 28 followers of economist Henry George who had incorporated earlier that year in Des Moines, Iowa. Their corporate constitution explained their purpose in beginning a new colony: "Fairhope Avenue" was one of the properties on the 1910 version of the board game The Landlord's Game, a precursor of Monopoly. In 1907 educator Marietta Johnson established the School for Organic Education in Fairhope.

The school was praised in John Dewey's influential 1915 book Schools of Tomorrow.

Fairhope became a prominent wintering spot for artists and intellectuals.

The Fairhope Single-Tax Corporation still operates, with 1,800 leaseholds covering more than 4,000 acres (16 km2) in and around the current town/city of Fairhope.

For over 50 years, fishermen and inhabitants of Fairhope have experienced the "jubilee" phenomenon.

The Bell Building on the Faulkner State Community College ground homes the Marietta Johnson Museum. The Fairhope Museum of History is positioned downtown.

Fairhope is positioned on the shore of Mobile Bay.

It is positioned 6 miles (10 km) south of Daphne and 10 miles (16 km) south of Spanish Fort.

Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.0 square miles (31.1 km2), of which 0.019 square miles (0.05 km2), or 0.16%, is water. Its altitude ranges from sea level at the bay to 122 feet (37 m) in the town/city center. Fairhope has a humid subtropical climate.

As of the census of 2010, there were 15,326 citizens , 6,732 homeholds, and 4,395 families residing in the city.

21.4% of the populace was under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 20.4% from 25 to 44, 28.5% from 45 to 64, and 23.7% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $56,157, and the median income for a family was $73,549.

About 5.0% of families and 5.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 9.8% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.

Fairhope is governed by a mayor and five-person town/city council which was last propel in 2016.

Episcopal Church in Fairhope, Alabama Fairhope's building and zoning ordinances overlap with those of Baldwin County.

Residents of the town/city want more control of assembly projects near, but still outside the town/city limits, while inhabitants outside the town/city limits want less town/city control of their property. Fairhope's enhance schools are part of the Baldwin County Public Schools system.

Fairhope High School (9-12), 1,142 students, Principal Jon Cardwell. Fairhope High School is positioned in the southernmost part of Fairhope.

It is estimated that 39% of the town/city of Fairhope's high school age students attend Daphne High School that is north of Fairhope.

Fairhope Middle School (7-8), 642 students, Principal Angie Hall.

Fairhope Intermediate School (4-6), 397 students, Principal Carol Broughton Fairhope Elementary School (K-3), 278 students, Principal Julie Pierce.

Other schools in Fairhope include: The Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education continues to operate as a private school for with approximately 51 students as of July 2007.

Faulkner State Community College has a ground in Fairhope that provides adult education, undergraduate courses, non-credit and improve service programs.

The University of South Alabama has a branch ground in Fairhope providing graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in education, counseling, nursing and company alongside non-credit and improve service programs.

Colby Cooper, Chief of Staff for the City of Mobile, Alabam"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fairhope city, Alabama".

"2 Alabama metros/cities among Southern Living's 2016 Best Small Towns in the South".

"Fairhope Campus" Faulkner State Community College, June 28, 2006, webpage: .

Enumeration Gazetteer, 2010, webpage: "Archived copy".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013".

History of Fairhope 1954-present Mobile: Putman, 2006 "For Thompson Square, Nashville is Work and Fairhope is Home".

(1999) "Fairhope: A Sentimental Review." (1956) "Fairhope, 1894-1954: The Story of a Single Tax Colony." Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony.

(2001) "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree: A Fairhope Memoir." Fairhope: Over the Transom.

(2013) "Fairhope in the Roaring Twenties." City of Fairhope official website Municipalities and communities of Baldwin County, Alabama, United States Bay Minette Daphne Fairhope Foley Gulf Shores Orange Beach Robertsdale Spanish Fort Barnwell Battles Wharf Belforest Bon Secour Bromley Clay City Crossroads Elsanor Fort Morgan Gasque Hurricane Josephine Latham Lillian Little River Malbis Marlow Miflin Montrose Oak Ono Island Oyster Bay Perdido Pine Grove Point Clear Rabun Seacliff Seminole Stapleton Stockton Swift Tensaw Yelling Settlement Populated places established in 1894 - Cities in Baldwin County, Alabama - Cities in Alabama - Georgist communities - Fairhope, Alabama - Populated coastal places in Alabama