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We’ve included here a brief history of
Fulton, TX.
A Brief History of Fulton, Texas
Fulton is on State Highway 35 and
Aransas Bay just north of Rockport in central Aransas
County. It was founded in 1866 and named for George Ware
Fulton, Sr.,qv who built
a large house nearby in 1874-76 (see FULTON MANSION
STATE HISTORIC STRUCTURE). The Coleman-Fulton Pasture
Companyqv ranched in the
area and promoted efforts toward a deepwater pass and
railroads in order to market beef. Several meat-packing
plants were built in the area in the late 1860s during the
peak years of the cattle boom, but most closed by the
mid-1870s because of competition from Chicago. In 1885
Fulton had a population of 175, a beef-canning plant, a
bone fertilizer factory, a post office, a school, and
several churches. Daily stages ran to Rockport and St.
Mary's of Aransas. In 1888 citizens voted to change the
the town's name to Aransas City in honor of the earlier
community that had existed on the nearby Live Oak
Peninsula in the 1830s and 1840s and George Fulton's early
business activities there. In 1890 the town's population
was 200 and industries included a turtle-canning plant and
deep-sea fishing. The name was changed back to Fulton by
1900, when the population had fallen to twenty-five and
the post office had been discontinued. Evidence of a
prehistoric settlement, thought to be Karankawan, was
found nearby in 1930. Tourism began to play an increasing
role in the town's economy after 1920, and by 1947 Fulton
had five stores and a population of 200. The community
continued to grow steadily between the 1950s and the early
1980s. It incorporated during the 1970s, and by 1980 it
had a population of 1,141 and forty-one businesses. The
population declined to 763 residents in 1990, then
recovered to 1,553 in 2000. Tourism and fishing remained
the mainstays of the economy.
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