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There’s a historic marker for the Colony Cemetery along Oak Street. Have you read it? That’s okay, long sign story short, the Fairhope Single Taxers built a coffin out of a picnic table for one deceased John Hunnel, who dropped dead while swimming in the waters of Mobile Bay on the Fourth of July 1895.

He was the first of many to be lowered into the Colony Cemetery or inserted into a niche in the C

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