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Encyclopedia of Alabama · 2026

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Accessed: 2026-09-01
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EstablishedHenry George proposed in Progress and Poverty (1879) that land rent should be taken for public revenue through a tax on land value. He finished second in the 1886 New York mayoral election, ahead of Theodore Roosevelt; Fairhope, Alabama was founded in 1894 on Georgist land leases.