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==History== A location by Fullerton called "Buffalo Leap" was thought to be used by aboriginals for driving buffalo to their deaths as a hunting method. It is also known as "Lover's Leap". Currently it is a part of the Broken Arrow Wilderness Camp located just north of Fullerton.<ref name="history">{{cite web | url=http://www.fullerton-ne.com/community.html | title=Our Community: History | publisher=City of Fullerton, NE | accessdate=20 August 2014}}</ref> In 1856, the Fullerton area became part of a [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]] reservation and was excluded from settlement under the [[1862 Homestead Act]]. Randall Fuller bought large tracts of land when the reservation was auctioned in 1871 and donated some for public use.<ref name="history" /> The town was [[plat]]ted in about 1878,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/nance/fullerton/ | title=Fullerton, Nance County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=20 August 2014}}</ref> and named after Fuller.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27385 | title=Profile for Fullerton, NE | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=20 August 2014 | archive-date=July 1, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701044104/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27385 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=105}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref>
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