Editing Fulton, Texas (section)

==History==
[[File:Fulton Mansion Texas 2024.jpg|thumb|left|The home of George Ware Fulton, Sr., now a Texas State Historic Site and open to the public.]]
Fulton was founded in 1866, and named by George Ware Fulton, Sr., whose wife Harriet Smith Fulton inherited {{convert|11000|acre|ha|abbr=on}} on the northern end of the Live Oak Peninsula, including the area where Mr. Fulton created the town he named for himself. Fulton had been a teacher in Indiana and decided to come to Texas by flatboat with 60 other men during the war for independence between Texas and Mexico. After the long trip to Texas, George Fulton found that the war was over but he joined the [[Texian Army|Army of the Republic of Texas]] for a few months.<ref name=THC>{{cite web|title=George Fulton's arrival in Texas|url=http://www.visitfultonmansion.com/index.aspx?page=894|publisher=[[Texas Historical Commission]]|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref>  He worked for Henry Smith, the first Governor of Texas, and married Smith's daughter, Harriet.  They raised a family and moved around the country as George found jobs supervising railroads and building bridges.  When Harriet inherited 48,000 acres of the Texas coast, they moved back to live on the Live Oak Peninsula.

After ten years, the Fultons built a large house, now known as the [[George W. Fulton Mansion|Fulton Mansion]], just south of the town.  The Fulton's owned thousands of cattle wandering on their extensive lands, and formed a cattle company with others.  Mr. Fulton built slaughterhouses and patented a chilled slaughterhouse, the first in the world. The town quickly became the site for many slaughterhouses as cattle from south Texas were driven to Fulton. The cattle slaughterhouses lasted until the 1880s when railroads reached the area and provided ways to ship live cattle to population centers such as Chicago.

In 1930, some evidence of a prehistoric settlement was found in the Fulton area, possibly Karankawan.

On August 25, 2017, [[Hurricane Harvey]] made landfall near Fulton at category 4 intensity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/al09/al092017.public.023.shtml?|title=Hurricane Harvey Advisory Number 23|last=Beven|first=John L.|date=August 25, 2017|website=National Hurricane Center|access-date=August 26, 2017}}</ref>