Fulton Packeries

Because early Fulton was surrounded by ranches and could be accessed by water, the town became a leading packing center on the Texas coast. The industry flourished from 1868 to 1882. Initially, the packeries rendered cattle hides and tallow only ...

Fulton Harbor

Fulton’s natural shoreline attracted a flourishing beef processing and distribution industry in the 1860s and 1870s. Piers and docks were built by landowners to facilitate the turtle, fishing, oyster, and shrimping industries. A steady growth began and flourished until silting ...

Fulton Seafood Industry

Seafood has always been a Fulton staple. As early as the 1880s, commercial fishing for trout, redfish, sheepshead, turtles, and oysters had become significant for Fulton’s economy. About 1888, David Rockport Scrivner opened Miller Brothers Fish Company at Broadway on ...

National Historic Landmark-Robert Fulton Birthplace

National Historical Landmark- Robert Fulton Birthplace

This stone house was the birthplace of Robert Fulton (1765-1815), artist, civil engineer, and inventor.

Fulton worked on the development of canal systems and engineering; he is perhaps best remembered for designing the CLERMONT, ...

National Historic Landmark-Fulton Opera House

National Historical Landmark-Fulton Opera House

This early Victorian structure was built (1852) to serve several civic purposes.

It was named in honor of Robert Fulton, co-inventor of the steamboat, and a native of the county. It remains the oldest continuously ...

Fulton County World War II, Korea, and Vietnam Memorial

My God My Country

Dedicated to all

Veterans

of

World War II,

Korea and Vietnam

Marker is at the intersection of Market Street and 2nd Street (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling west on Market Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fulton County Veterans Memorial

In Memory of All

Fulton County

Veterans

Marker is at the intersection of Market Street and 2nd Street (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling west on Market Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fulton County War on Terrorism Memorial

Fallen Soldiers of

Fulton County, PA.

CW2 Jonathan C. Helman 12-11-2002 (Honduras)

SSG Christopher E. Cutchall 9-29-2003 (Iraq)

LCpl Steven W. Szwydek 10-20-2005 (Iraq)

[A Second Marker]

In Honor and Remembrance

of the Heroes and Victims in the

Fight Against Terrorism

and to Celebrate the

Enduring Spirit of All Americans

Marker ...

Fulton County Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World War I M

(Dedication Plaque):This park forum

and bronze tablets

erected by

the citizens of

Fulton County

as a memorial

to her soldiers

who served in the

Civil War,

the Spanish-American War

and

the World War.

(Top of Civil War Plaque):

These tablets are dedicated to those who

entered the service from Fulton County

to preserve the Union. ...

Fulton County

Formed April 19, 1850 out of Bedford County. Named for steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. Scene of Confederacy's first casualties in the Gettysburg Campaign, and its last campsite (1864) in Pennsylvania. McConnellsburg, county seat, incorporated 1814

Marker is at the intersection of ...