The festival ends at midnight as the sky lights up with an incredible aerial display of fireworks to ring in the New Year. The City of Fullerton will be celebrating the 25th annual “First Night Fullerton” on New Year’s Eve! First Night Fullerton is an open party which is a family-friendly event featuring musical stage performances by celebrity cover bands, rides, roaming entertainment, games, food vendors, activities and more.
That doesn’t mean that you have to stop celebrating the occasion, however. If you have kids, then your days of staying out until the wee hours of New Year’s Day are probably behind you. Many descendants of town's founders still reside in Jimtown or find themselves connected to the community through family ties, including members of the Broschart, Elmore, Harlan, Miller, and Phillips families, who either reside in Jimtown or participate in their yearly reunions at the Phillips Chapel park and pavilion.Harbor Boulevard, Pomona Avenue, and Wilshire Avenue Many Phillips family descendants, as well as residents of Jimtown, are also resting there. Both Union and Confederate veterans of the Civil War are buried there. Gibson, which dates back to the year of 1873. The oldest known grave is that of War of 1812 veteran Dudley A. Phillips served as a county Overseer of the Poor from 1872 through 1877. Civil War veteran, farmer, and coal miner Moses J.
Phillips family around the 1870s as a burial ground for the poor and indigent. The Phillips Cemetery was established by the Moses J. Bell Company steel alloy bell, cast on July 8, 1921, was purchased for the school around 1929 by the West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, the same company which donated the land for the church. On September 22, 2007, the school house bell from the old Norton Grade School in Norton, West Virginia, was placed in the steeple at Phillips Chapel. Many family reunions and civic groups utilize the church's adjacent park and pavilion. The land on which the church stands was sold to the congregation by the Midland Corporation, aka the West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, for the sum of $1.00 in 1945. A church was finally constructed in 1951 with the help of many residents of the community who pulled together the funds and their own labor to complete the building. Services were held outdoors, weather permitting. The congregation was organized in the early 1940s by Rev. The Phillips Chapel United Methodist Church is the center of the community. Major roads include County Route 151, which bisects the community, and Jimtown Road, which connects Jimtown to nearby Coalton. Jimtown is served by the Norton-Harding-Jimtown Public Service District, which provides water services to the area. It was named for James Jefferson "Squire Jim" Phillips (1855–1937), a farmer who served as a justice of the peace for Roaring Creek District and whose family owned a majority of the land that now encompasses the community. 1952) which was located at the present-day intersection of Fair Hope, Findley, and Yeager roads. Jimtown was formerly known as Fair Hope for the one-room school (late 1800s – c. Route 33), approximately seven miles west of Elkins. Jimtown is located in Roaring Creek District of Randolph County on present day County Route 151 (formerly U.S.
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