Fulton, Missouri
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N 38° 50.832 W 091° 56.852
15S E 591331 N 4300346
The city is five minutes south of Interstate 70 on U.S. 54 and is centrally located between Kansas City and St. Louis. Fulton is also 25 minutes from the state capital of Jefferson City and 30 minutes southeast of Columbia.
Waymark Code: WMQK4Z
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2016
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County of city: Callaway County
Location of courthouse:
Fulton City Hall Phone: Phone: (573) 592-3111
"Fulton was founded here in the Little Dixie Region of Missouri, 1825, to replace the poorly located Elizabeth as seat of Callaway County. Named for a grandson of Daniel Boone and War of 1812 Ranger, Capt. James Callaway, the county was organized, 1820. The town name honors Robert Fulton.
"Here is the Missouri School for the Deaf, first such school west of the Mississippi, founded in 1851; Presbyterian Westminster College for men, founded 1851, chartered, 1853; and a Christian Church junior college for women, William Woods, founded, 1869, at Camden Point, moved here, 1890. State Hospital No.1 for mentally ill, chartered, 1847, opened here, 1851, is one of the first three such hospitals west of the Mississippi.
"Fulton is the capital of the Kingdom of Callaway, a county early noted for its fine horses and its pioneering in development of the famous Missouri mule.
"Here at Westminster College a plaque marks the site where the phrase "Iron Curtain" was first used in a 1946 speech by English wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Also of interest area museum collection at William Woods College, and, in town, a monument to Capt. James Callaway.
"William D. Kerr (1808-89), was first head of School for the Deaf, and Dr. Turner R.H. Smith (1820-85), of Hospital No.1. here lived novelists Nathan C. Kouns (1833-90); G.W. Hamilton (1845-1909); Caroline A. Stanley (1849-1919); Henry Bellamann (1882-1945)." ~ State Historical Society of Missouri