The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Fellows developed as an oil boomtown after the 1909 discovery of the Midway Gusher. The first post office at Fellows opened in 1910. The name Fellows honors Charles A. Fellows, a Sunset Western Railway contractor.
The 1969 film The Lottery, based on the short story by Shirley Jackson, was shot at Fellows. It featured a small town much like thousands of others across America holding an apparently ordinary, mundane civic event that had a cold-blooded, horrifying ending to an unfortunate victim come from out-of-nowhere. The film was ranked as one of the two bestselling educational films ever and has been widely shown in educational settings across America as an indictment against unthinking adherence to tradition and general inhumanity.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fellows’s history is told.
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Fellows, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Fellows is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Fellows has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Midway-Sunset Jack Plant in Derby Acres, 4.1 miles away.
Fellows and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.