Firehouse Corner Elementary School
In the early 1900's Warren Williams donated land on the southwest corner of Maine and Center streets for a new elementary school for the New River District. The school was a wood building painted blue on what was called the Firehouse Corner as a firehouse was just behind this new school. Realizing Maine St. was not a safe place for the children to play, the school was shut down and West End School was built. The school building was then moved to Carson Street where it was used by W.C. Black as the Standard newspaper office. Then it was used as Fallon's City Hall and finally moved to 405 S. Maine street as a part of the VFW building.
FROM OLD LODGE
HALL TO NEW ONE
At this particular time when this magnificent Fraternal Hall and community center has just been thrown open to the public, and the dancing auditorium booked ahead every Saturday night for six weeks, it will be of interest to reflect upon the similarity of the promotion of this enterprise and that of the original or first community hall and lodge building in this community.
To go back just a little farther, after the county seat was moved from old La Platte to Stillwater, there was a post office established on the large ranch of the late Hon. Lem Allen, a few miles southwest of Fallon, and was called St. Clair. Along in the early 1890's a petition was sent in for a post office to be located on Mike Fallon's ranch to accommodate the New River people. There was quite a flurry over it but the petition was granted And Miss Rebecca Bruner, sister of Jess Bruner, was appointed postmaster, the office being located in a mall building that stood just east of the ranch home of Mike Fallon, the property later being purchased by the late Warren Williams. The post office still remained in the same building which stood just east of the present fine dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hursh on West Williams avenue.
Jim Richards erected a store building, now occupied by the Eagle, but it then stood about the center of what was later Williams Avenue and was moved south to its present location on Maine street. A schoolhouse was built just back of where the Williams Estate block now stands. These were the only buildings in Fallon. Then a larger schoolhouse was needed and Warren Williams donated the ground now known as the firehouse corner and a new building was put up. A. R. Jeffrey bought the old school building and moving it converted it into part of the New River hotel, which in later years was moved to Center street to make way for the Flood block and Rex Theatre.
The school grew and Warren Williams offered to give the present West End school site and $2000 in cash for the fire house corner which he had formerly donated to the district. This generous offer was accepted and the West End school building was completed in 1907. The old school building was moved from the Firehouse Corner, now the Main Service Station, to Carson Street and was later occupied by W. C. Black with the Standard office, but is now the city hall.
Churchill County Eagle February 12, 1927