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Callaway County Courthouse in Fulton.
Location of Fulton, Missouri Location of Fulton, Missouri State Missouri Fulton City Hall Fulton is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of, Callaway County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The town/city is home to two universities, Westminster College and William Woods University, the Missouri School for the Deaf, the Fulton State Hospital, and Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center (state prison).
The first settlement in the county was 1808 at Cote Sans Dessein along the Missouri River.
Early leaders considered the territory between Wainwright and Tebbetts for the first Missouri state capital.
Callaway County was organized in 1830 and was titled after Captain James Callaway, who was killed by Indians.
In 1861, leaders answered the call to defend Callaway County when word appeared that Union troops had advanced to a close-by county.
Jones, from easterly Callaway County, assembled troops to protect the county.
Talks continued a several days and secured a mutual ceasefire agreement between the United States of America and Callaway County.
Elated from the prosperous defense, people proclaimed their county The Kingdom of Callaway, a reference that remains today.
Fulton, the biggest city in Callaway County, was established and became the governmental center of county in 1825 but was not incorporated until March 14, 1859.
The town/city was originally titled Volney after Constantin Francois de Chasseb uf, comte de Volney, but was changed to honor Robert Fulton, the engineer and inventor, two months after the initial Volney name in 1825. Volney, New York is a town in Oswego County, New York which is also titled for Volney.
A village inside the town of Volney is Fulton, New York which is also titled for Robert Fulton.
When the first history of Callaway County was compiled in 1884, the die had already been cast as far as the type of improve Fulton was to be.
The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton (February 26, 1847), the first mental community facility west of the Mississippi; the General Assembly agreed (February 28, 1851) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College; and Fulton was the seat of county government.
The Christian Church moved its Orphan School to Fulton in 1890.
Whether or not they were influenced by the already-existing universities is not known, but Fulton's bid of $40,000 and the offer of 10 acres (40,000 m2) of territory was surely a factor.
The school, which had previously been positioned at Camden Point, Missouri, later became William Woods College for Women, which later became a Coed University, thus accepting men.
Novelist Henry Bellamann was born in Fulton in 1882, and interval up and attended college there.
The downtown merchant's association (the Brick District) has a mascot titled in honor of Henry Bellamann, called Henry Bellagnome; which is a plastic gnome that tours all of Callaway County which includes Fulton, promoting tourism and shop small-town programs. Fred Bell Speculative Cottage, Brandon-Bell-Collier House, George Washington Carver School, Court Street Historic Residential District, Downtown Fulton Historic District, John Augustus Hockaday House, Pitcher Store, Robnett-Payne House, Westminster College Gymnasium, Westminster College Historic District, and White Cloud Presbyterian Church and Cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.40 square miles (32.12 km2), of which, 12.26 square miles (31.75 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. There were 4,085 homeholds of which 28.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.3% were married couples living together, 14.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 44.8% were non-families.
17.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 21.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.4% were from 25 to 44; 21.2% were from 45 to 64; and 12.4% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.26% White, 15.44% African American, 0.41% Native American, 1.06% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other competitions, and 1.43% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,700 homeholds out of which 28.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.9% were married couples living together, 14.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.3% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 20.0% from 18 to 24, 31.1% from 25 to 44, 16.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Rosa Parks Center, a Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) center for incarcerated girls, is a former college dormitory, positioned at William Woods University (WWU).
Westminster College and William Woods University are the two post-secondary establishments in the city.
Fulton was formerly, from 1842 until its method in 1928, the site of Synodical College, one of the earliest women's universities in the United States.
Bartley Elementary (K 5), Bush Elementary (K 5), Mc - Intire Elementary (K 5), Fulton Middle School (6 8) and Fulton High School (9 12) are part of the Fulton Public School system.
Missouri School for the Deaf, a state school supervised under The Missouri Department of Secondary and Elementary Education (DESE), is also positioned in Fulton.
The National Churchill Museum in Fulton memorializes the statesman and his Iron Curtain speech.
The Fishback Museum spotlights history of the Missouri School for the Deaf.
Paris, Tightwad and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names.
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography by Lawrence O.
Christensen, University of Missouri Press, 1999 "National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"William Woods University (Fulton, MO) Rosa Parks Center" ().
Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 (University of Missouri Press, 2015) Fulton, Missouri tourism site Historic maps of Fulton in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Callaway County, Missouri, United States County seats in Missouri
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