FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — An Eastern Shore landmark will soon be on the move. The historic Tolstoy Park, also known as the “Hermit Hut,” is relocating from Montrose to the Flying Creek Nature Preserve in Fairhope.
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Back in the 1920s, a man named Henry Stuart began building a dome-shaped hut in Montrose.
“When he built it, it was very primitive,” Fairhope’s Mayor Sherry Sullivan said. “He really lived off the land there and near Fly Creek.”
Stuart was dubbed the Hermit of Montrose, living in the hut until 1944. He passed away in 1946, but more than a century later, the home he called “Tolstoy Park” is still standing strong in the same spot.
“All of a sudden, all the commercial stuff built up around it over the years,” Sullivan said…