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No, I am not eligibleWhat you need to know about Dauphin Island, AL Dauphin Island is located in Mobile County, Alabama. The population is 93% White, 1% Black, 2% Asian and 1% Native American or Native Hawaiian. 2% identify as another race or ethnicity, or two or more races. 1% of residents are of Hispanic or Latino origin. The median income is $64,677 and the median home value is $205,900. For more on schools, real estate, business and health care in Dauphin Island, see each of the tabs above. Bayou La Batre, AL[In these articles The Harbinger examines the history and consequences of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce's development of Dauphin Island. The previous article looked at the building of the first bridge to the island.] The Chamber of Commerce purchased Dauphin Island in 1954, and within a few years, the business group raised over $6 million selling land it bought for $950,000. demand for recreation was crucial to the Chamber's success. When the first bridge to Dauphin

Island opened in 1955, visits to an ocean beach became an easy day trip for Mobilians. on the Gulf in Florida and Mississippi had developed years before because good roads, such as US Highway 90, ran near the coast. Dauphin Island had remained isolated, and except for the yearly Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, tourism on Mobile County's Gulf beaches had contributed little to Mobile's economy.businesses for sale rg1 In 1974 the Chamber of Commerce published a book by a Chamber vice president, S.business for sale abilene ksHis account, The Development of Dauphin Island, Alabama: Gem of thehandyman services canberra Ocean, described the venture: "Our project was non-profit to the Chamber of Commerce, ourmike handyman service ct

sole purpose being to see this beautiful island enjoyed by as many of our people as possible." McNeely wrote that the idea for the project came at an informal session at the Chamber in theAccording to this account, a group of Chamber officers met after county voters had rejected a one-cent-a-gallon gas tax to fund a Dauphin Island bridge. The Chamber had led the campaign to build a bridge with a gas tax. business for sale bluffton scMcNeely wrote in The Development of Dauphinensure cleaning & handyman services llc Island, Alabama: "One of that small group said, 'We ought to buy the island and sell off enough to pay for it and build our bridge.'" That morning, McNeely indicated, the Chamber called Birmingham and offered the Gulf Properties Corporation $1 million for the island.

Dauphin Island is fourteen miles long, with an eastern portion heavily wooded, wider and more elevated than the wind- and water-swept western portion. Over the centuries, Gulf waters have washed away and then rebuilt portions of the island. The east end is the most stable. During the nineteenth century the Gulf swept away miles of the present island's western portion . The federal government constructed Fort Gaines at the east end of the island in the early 1800s. By the end of that century, the federal government owned nearly 1,000 acres around the fort, a tract that extended to the present-day Cadillac Square Park. Land records in Mobile County Probate Court examined by The Harbinger show that in 1911, Congress sold 700 acres of this land to the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company on the condition that within four years the company would build a railroad bridge from the mainland, and a dock on the Gulf toDuring the next several years, the syndicate involved in the railway project

bought and consolidated ownership of most of Dauphin Island. It was during these years that the name of Forney Johnston first appears in probate court records. Johnston was the son of former Alabama Governor and U.S. Senator, Joseph F. Johnston. The elder Johnston served in the Congress from 1907 until his death in 1913. Some years later, Frank Boykin, Mobile's Congressman from 1935 until 1962, joined Forney Johnston and other business people to form Gulf Properties Corporation. made a fortune through land speculation before he entered Congress. Since the early 1900s he had bought and sold land and timber throughout south Alabama. According to a probate court document the Gulf Properties Corporation was organized in 1930 to acquire and hold land on Dauphin Island until a bridge and other developments would add "to the value and use or marketability of the land thereon." By 1953 Gulf Properties held most of Dauphin Island. Another version, attributed to Frank Boykin, of how Gulf Properties acquired the island

appeared in a 1973 book by Edward Boykin, Everything's Made for Love in This Man's World: Vignettes from the Life of Frank W. Boykin. In this account, the prosperous Boykin met a man named Breck Musgrove, of Jasper, Alabama, on a train trip from New York in 1929. Musgrove approached Boykin for a $50,000 loan, offering to "put up Dauphin Island asBoykin and several others made the loan. Eighteen months later, after Musgrove failed to pay it back, Boykin, Forney Johnston, T. J. Rester, and Judge Matt Boykin, Frank Boykin's brother, took title to "over ninety percent of Dauphin Island." The partners then formed the Gulf Properties Corporation. Within two years of its purchase of the Gulf Properties� land in 1954, the Chamber of Commerce had subdivided and sold over 2,000 lots, raising more than $6 million. $950,000 in cash for the land. In their deal with the Chamber, Boykin, Forney and their partners, now organized as West Dauphin Corporation, held onto the westmost eight miles of the island.

The income from the Chamber's sale of the lots went into a trust set up by the Chamber at theThe terms of the Dauphin Island Trust Indenture set up the institutions to govern the island and kept the income from the project tax-exempt. Under the trust, the Chamber disbursed money for its ambitious building program. A Chamber spokesman explained how income from the speculative venture was tax-exempt: "The trust fund is being set up so that all money derived from the sale of lots will be spent on the island on behalf of the public andOn this basis, the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue has ruled that the Chamber of Commerce, as a nonprofit corporation, will not be liable for income tax." The trust agreement stated the Chamber's purpose was "to develop said island as a recreational center and residential and resort area for the benefit of the inhabitants of Mobile County, the State of Alabama and the Mobile Gulf Coast trade area." In these years it seemed

that the Chamber intended to develop the island for all Alabamians. On the west side of the island the Chamber constructed, for the public, a $500,000 beach resort named Sand Dunes Casino, set on a one-mile stretch of Gulf beachfront. This park was equipped with a fishing pier. At the east end of the island the Chamber remodeled a former military building into a recreation facility, calling it the Fort Gaines Club. The Chamber also began the restoration of Fort GainesAlso on the east end, the Chamber built a camp ground located near another publicThe Chamber also set aside several other parcels of land for the pubic. use of property owners, the Chamber built the Isle Dauphine Club, equipped with a swimming pool, an eighteen-hole golf course, and a clubhouse. The club was set on a mile of Gulf beach. The Chamber also set aside another three miles of Gulf beach and several private parks for the Recent interviews with long-time island residents and newspaper accounts from the