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Fulton County
Historical Marker
Location
of sign - Fulton County Courthouse 114 East Wellington Street
Hickman, Kentucky
Photo
taken April 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Fulton County
Formed,
1845, out of Hickman Co. Part of Jackson Purchase from Chickasaw Indians in
1818. Named for Robert Fulton
whose
Clermont, best known of early steamboats, went up the Hudson River in
1807. Far western part of the county, known
as
Madrid Bend, separated from rest by bend of Mississippi River. Hickman,
county seat, was founded as Mills' Point in 1834.
1958
Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Department of Highways
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