Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.Old Fulton Postcards is a wonderful and little-known site for genealogical research for people with New York connections. Fulton County Cotton Field: This photograph shows a cotton field near the Mississippi River in Fulton County. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society. Fulton Opera House: The Opera House in Fulton is shown in this historic postcard. Fulton County Courthouse: This postcard, sent in 1908, shows the Fulton County courthouse at Hickman, Kentucky. Fulton City Hall: This historic postcard shows the city hall at Fulton, Kentucky. Fulton: Fulton's business section is shown in this historic postcard. Fulton County Floods: This 1909 postcard shows Hickman, the county seat of Fulton County flooded by the Mississippi River. Lover's Leap: This photograph shows the Mississippi River at Lover's Leap in Fulton County. Baltzar's Hill: This photograph shows the Mississippi River at Baltzar's Hill in Fulton County. Media Images Robert Fulton: Robert Fulton, Fulton County's namesake, is shown here. Livingston died in 1813 and Fulton died two years later. Unfortunately, neither Fulton nor Livingston lived to see the true impact that their innovation had on the Western rivers' waters. The "New Orleans" finally reached its namesake destination in January 1812. The boat, however, did not sustain any significant damage.
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Then, in December, near what would be Fulton County, the "New Orleans" was rocked by the powerful series of New Madrid earthquakes.
The "New Orleans" was delayed at Louisville, at the Falls of the Ohio, for about a month until the river's water was high enough to safely pass over the obstacle. Livingston (Livingston County, Kentucky's namesake). That craft, the "New Orleans," was owned by Robert Fulton and partner Robert R. The first steamboat to travel from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, made the trip in 1811. Before the advent of the railroad the steamboat was the quickest and most effective way to reach distant locations. This innovative craft quickly caught on and drastically changed the way people traveled and transported goods.
Fulton's boat, the "Clermont," was successfully tested on the Hudson River in New York in 1807. In 1845, Fulton County was created from part of Hickman County.įulton County's namesake, Robert Fulton, built one of the first commercially successful steamboats in the United States. The Jackson Purchase was eventually divided into eight Kentucky counties: Hickman, Calloway, Graves, McCracken, Marshall, Ballard, Fulton, and Carlisle. The treaty was signed in October 1818, and became official the next year. It was named after General Andrew Jackson because of Jackson's involvement in the negotiation process with the Chickasaw Indian Nation for the acquisition of the section of land that was eventually bordered by the Ohio River to the north, the Tennessee River to the east, the Mississippi River to the west, and the Tennessee state line to the south. The last geographical region added to Kentucky was known as the Jackson Purchase. Fulton County's location on the Mississippi River in the southwest corner of Kentucky fits well with its namesake's fame and the mode of travel and trade that came to dominate that body of water during the nineteenth century. Historical Marker #1169 in Fulton explains that the county and town were both named for Robert Fulton, an early steamboat innovator.
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