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Fulton

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Fulton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States. Fulton is just to the north of the city limits of Santa Rosa, and 7 miles (11 km) north-northeast of Sebastopol. Fulton has a post office, established in 1871 and assigned ZIP code 95439. The community is named after Thomas and James Fulton, who founded the community. The population as of the 2010 U.S. Census was 541. There are a set of railway lines which go through the town boundaries; these lines are used by Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (or the SMART Train). Fulton was once home to a chicken processing plant that was in operation from the 1960s until its closure in 2010. [1]



Genealogy


Fulton Cemetery . . . Link


Gedcom Index for Fulton, CA. . . . Link

Surnames: Pitkin


LDS genealogy.com: Fulton . . . Link


Roadside Thoughts: Fulton California . . . Link


Sonoma County Genealogical Society . . . Link



About The Town


North of Santa Rosa, the first town to grow was Fulton, named for the Thomas and James Fulton who bought the land in 1858. The railroad came to Fulton and by 1891 there was a hotel, several stores, a livery stable, two blacksmith shops, grain houses and a winery. Laumann's store opened the first post office in 1874, with Frank Howell as the first postmaster. In 1906 a new post office was built with Minnie K. Miller as postmistress. Dr. W. P. Burke built Burke's Sanitarium at Alturia in the foothills east of Fulton. . . . [Archived Website. Link]



American Towns . . . Link


Charcoal From the Laguna . . . Link

Up until the 1830's the Laguna was a dense forest with thousands of oak trees. Acorn mush was a major food staple for the Laguna Indians and each fall they gathered tons of acorns for their winter food supply. With the arrival of Europeans, the face of the Laguna began to change. Farmers to make way for farmland girdled thousands of oaks. A huge charcoal business developed as the wood from the oak was burned to make charcoal that was a much-desired commodity in San Francisco restaurants. In 1878, 150 railroad carloads of the charcoal were shipped from the town of Fulton.


Fulton in 1900 Description . . . Article Ref [SCHS p.10]

Fulton, containing 250 people,  is a producer of hops, prunes and grapes, north of Santa Rosa. It is a junction on the Northwester Pacific.


Fulton Today [Niche] (has a map of location) . . . Link


Fulton Wikipedia Page . . . Link


Fulton Historical Society . . . Link


Petition to annex property to the existing boundary of the American Viticulture Area known as Russian River Valley. . . Link


Sonoma County's First Filipino Immigrants [Filipino American Nat. HS Sonoma County Chapter in Fulton] . . . Link


Street Names in Fulton . . . Link


Trains through Fulton . . . Schedule [SCHS p.2] . . Last Train [SCHS p.17] . . About [SCHS p.10] . . Golden Days [SCHS p.17] . . Route [SCHS p.6]


WikiVoyage: Fulton . . . Link



Check Sonoma Historian (SCHS) for articles about the towns. . . .  Link




People & Other Entities


DeLacey Hall . . . Link


Edith Granger Hawkes [SCHS p. 11] . . . Article Ref . . . Nat. League of Amer. Pen Women [p. 11]

Edith Granger Hawkes, A.B. was educated in Chicago schools and Smith College - did educational work for A.C. McClurg & Co., publishers (1893-1895) and was postmistress at Fulton from 1921-1930


Ed Stump [died at 19] . . . Death Ref [SCHS p.7]


Edward Galen Lee . . . Obit Ref [SCHS p.10]


Esther Small [SCHS p. 4] . . . Article Ref . . . School in Fulton Ref [p. 4]


Fogline Vineyards . . . Link


Frederick Harlen Barnes (Son of William P Barnes) . . . Full Bio [SCHS p.3-4]


Fulton Market. 1150 River Rd, Fulton, California 95439 USA . . . Link


Fulton Wine Company in Fulton [Excerpt from Book]. . . Article

He raised cattle and horses and also hay and grapes. He was quite a businessman! Other endeavors included a hotel in Cloverdale, the Fulton Wine Company in Fulton, and a grocery store in another Sonoma County town.

* William Perry Barnes 

* Mr. Liarnes  . . .  For years Mr. liarnes was connected with the Fulton Wine Company, a corporation which is now controlled by the Asti Colony Company.


Grant A Laughlin Farm near Fulton . . . Article Ref

Fred J Wiseman's historic Air mail flight took off from the Laughlin farm near Fulton. 


John Allen, Fighting Fire . . . News Clip [SCHS p.17]


Laumann's store (1874) [Frank Howell] . . . Link

Laumann's store opened the first post office in 1874, with Frank Howell as the first postmaster.


Lucile Wright [G. H. Jacobs, Hugh Caldwell] . . . Letter [SCHS p.11]


Mark West Citizens Advisory Council: History [includes parts of Fulton] . . . Link


Matsuda Family [Fulton/Sebastopol] . . . . Link


Mrs. H. J. Granger . . . Article Ref . . . 


Thomas and James Fulton . . . Link [CAGenWeb Archives] . . . Article Ref. . . 

. . . was Fulton, named for the Thomas and James Fulton who bought the land in 1858.

Fulton, James 1827 . . . . . http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/fulton954nbs.txt 
Fulton, Thomas . . . . . . . . [page 524] https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto02lewi/mode/1up 


William Perry Barnes . . . Link

As he was only three years old when he came to California W. P. Barnes has never known any other home than this. He followed the fortunes of the family until attaining his majority, working with his father on the home ranch after his school days were over, but at the age of twenty-one he started out independently. On a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres near Fulton which he purchased about that time, 1868, and which is still in his possession, he made his first attempt at ranching independently. This is now a rich, productive piece of property, devoted to the raising of hay and grapes, and also to maintaining a large stock and dairy business. This initial purchase of land has been followed by many others in the course of his long residence in Sonoma county, and at different times he has owned large herds of cattle and raised many fine blooded horses. These have since been disposed of, however, as has also the hotel of which he was at one time the proprietor in Cloverdale. At another time he was the proprietor of a grocery and wine store in Fulton, but this has also been sold. Besides the ranch which he owns near Fulton he also owns a forty-acre vineyard in Russian river township, and with these exceptions his holdings are in town property. comprising four brick blocks in Sebastopol and twelve houses in Santa Rosa, all of which arc rented and yield the owner a good annual income.

Barnes, W. P. . . . . . . . . . http://www.cagenweb.org/sonoma/bios/Arc-Bio/BarnesWP.htm 
Barnes, William Perry 1847 . . . http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/barnes933nbs.txt 


Woodworth hop and pear ranch . . . Ref


The web site "The Cockrill Family of Sonoma County" [Link] has a wonderful collection of local genealogy including the following with ties to this town: References to Granger and Fulton names.




Maps


California, Sonoma County 1877. Thos. H. Thompson & Co., 1877. [Page 040] . . . Link . . . In Color


Map of Fulton, with boundaries [BingMaps] . . . Link


Map of Fulton [MapQuest] . . . Link




Photos


Town of Fulton, California, along railroad tracks, about 1908 . . . Link


Town of Fulton, California, railroad station . . . Link







Citations:


[1]   Wikipedia contributors. "Fulton, California." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 27 Jul. 2022. Web. Viewed 6 Oct. 2022. . . . Link


[2]   "Historical and Descriptive Sketch Book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino: Comprising Sketches of Their Topography, Productions, History, Scenery, and Peculiar Attractions", C.A. Menefee, 1873 . . . Link


[3]  "Historical and Descriptive Sketch of Sonoma County, California" Robert Allan Thompson. L.H. Everts, 1877 - Sonoma County (Calif.) - 104 pages. [Bodega pp 100-101]  . . . Link


[4]   "An Illustrated History of Sonoma County, California: Containing a History of the County of Sonoma from the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time", Lewis Publishing, 1889  . . . Link