Home of George W. Fulton

Before he was a cattle baron Fulton taught school, made watches and mathematical instruments in Indiana. He led sixty men down the Wabash by flatboat to fight for Texas, but they reached Matagorda Bay in February 1837, after San Jacinto. He then carried the old land archives from San Antonio to Houston for the General Land Office and served as customs director of the Aransas district in 1838-39. He later held a patent for shipping beef under artificial cooling, and after giving land to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway he laid out Sinton and Gregory.

What the plaque says

Home of George W. Fulton Born at Philadelphia, June 8, 1810. Served in the Texan Army in 1836. A pioneer resident of Refugio County. After an engineering career of distinction elsewhere he returned to Texas and became a cattle baron Died October 31, 1893. The town of Fulton bears his name. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

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