Alexander Fulton Park

The park carries the name of a man whose story is mostly about land. Alexander Fulton, a Scottish-born Pennsylvanian pardoned in 1797 for the Whiskey Rebellion, ran a trading post at Rapides and reportedly held exclusive rights to deal with the Native people there, extending credit and taking land when it went unpaid. Between 1806 and 1814 the territory's Indian agent, Dr. John Sibley, repeatedly backed claims by Apalachee, Biloxi, Choctaw, Pascagoula and Taensa people that Fulton and his partner William Miller had wrongfully taken thousands of arpents. He laid out Alexandria and died in 1816.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — steps away
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 1.0 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Kent Plantation House — 2.4 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 4.8 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.

More markers nearby

• Post-Civil War Alexandria — steps away
• Alexandria — steps away
• Thomas Courtland Manning — steps away
• Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback — steps away