On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fulton is more historic than 95% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fulton’s overall grade.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Fulton’s 285 sits above most of its state (86% of New York towns have fewer) while its 34 historic buildings outnumber those of 82% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.8 points).
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Fulton’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The town was first settled around 1715 after being purchased directly from local natives. Part of the early town was called Vroomansland after Adam Vrooman, the landowner. However, other settlers of German extraction, desiring the same land, fomented trouble with the natives.
Fulton was established from part of the Town of Middleburgh in 1828.
The Shafer Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Passages that mention Fulton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A standard history of Fulton County, Ohio, an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and county1920 · page 446Read the page →
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1846, when the Commissioners of Lucas County met at Maumee, and “upon the petition of many residents of Fulton Township ordered that the south tier of sections in township 9 south, range 4 east, be taken from Amboy Township, and attached to Fulton Township.” So, its boundaries have remained to the present. Fulton was the tenth township of Fulton County to be organized, although its settlement began within a year or two of the opening of settlement in the first of the townships to which the pioneer came.
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A standard history of Fulton County, Ohio, an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and county1920 · page 495Read the page →
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Section six of the act by which Fulton county was erected in 1850 provided for the attachment of Fulton County to the Thirteenth Judicial District of the State of Ohio, and ordered “the Court of Common Pleas and Supreme Court of the county of Fulton shall be holden in the township of Pike until the permanent seat of justice shall be established within and for the said county.” In pursuance of this, and by virture of his power under the state constitution then in effect, the governor of the state named three residents of Fulton
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History of Montgomery and Fulton counties, N.Y.1878Read the page →
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— fomierh Warrensbush: while (.■aiighnaw3g;t bnd its sub'^tantial stone church — built in 1763 — and surrounding hamlet, and Johnstown, the shire town of Montgomerycounty, as it had been of Tryon county, was a village of considerable impf)rtance. The creation of Fulton county caused a division al this town, and the northern portion was set off April i8ih. 1838, to form the town of Perth Fulton county . which bounds it on the north.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Fulton, 1815 to 1954
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Fulton is more historic than 95% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Fulton?
Two places: the Breakabeen Historic District (listed 1974) and the West Fulton Methodist Church (2013).
How old are the homes in Fulton?
29% of Fulton’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.8 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1980.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
