Zachary Taylor Fulmore

Fulmore left school in 1864 to enlist as a private in a North Carolina artillery battalion, was captured at Fort Fisher in January 1865 and was held prisoner until May. He took a law degree at the University of Virginia in 1870 and was admitted to the bar in Austin that December. As Travis County judge from 1880 to 1886 he improved county finances, a city-county hospital was established, and the county bought the toll bridge across the Colorado and made it free. He sat on the board of the Texas School for the Blind from 1875 to 1897.

What the plaque says

Zachary Taylor Fulmore Jurist, educator and author. Born in North Carolina, he came in 1870 to Texas, where he married Luella Robertson, Granddaughter of founder of Robertson Colony. Practiced law in Austin; also filled numerous commitments to State and City. Chairman, Texas Codifying Commission. One of organizers of Texas State School for Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. Charter member and President, Texas State Historical Association. Chairman,City School Trustees. Wrote a most valuable book, "History and Geography of Texas As Told In County Names." (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Capitol — 0.3 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.
• Bullock Texas State History Museum — 0.6 mi
  The state's history museum at the head of Congress Avenue, built around the hull of La Salle's ship La Belle, raised from Matagorda Bay with 1.8 million artifacts.
• Harry Ransom Center — 0.8 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.9 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.

More markers nearby

• Third Site for Travis County Government — steps away
• Wooldridge Square — steps away
• Site of Haynie-Cook House — steps away
• Original Site of First Baptist Church of Austin — steps away