Ernest Berry Gaston, a journalist and Populist from Iowa, founded the Fairhope Single-Tax Colony in Baldwin County as a utopian communal village.
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Ernest Berry Gaston, a journalist and Populist from Iowa, founded the Fairhope Single-Tax Colony in Baldwin County as a utopian communal village.