A WKRG Hometown Tour explored Fairhope’s origin story, its setting on Mobile Bay and the character of its downtown.
The report recounted that Fairhope’s founders organized in Des Moines, Iowa, before choosing a site on the bluffs of Mobile Bay. It described the community’s single-tax-colony roots, waterfront parks, public art, flowers, galleries, shops and annual arts festival.
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