Historical For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 663
FULTON TOWNSHIP.

FULTON TOWNSHIP lies in the extreme northeastern part of the county, and is bounded on the north and east by Scott County, and on the south by Montpelier Township, and on the west by Sweetland and Wilton Townships. It comprises all of Congressional Township 78, range 1 east, and is almost exclusively prairie land. Few finer agricultural regions can be found than that of Fulton Township, the farms being very productive, and the farmers generally in comfortable circumstances. Among the first settlers in the township were J. C. Newell, Andrew Smith, John Barron, and Thomas Prickley, all, we believe, being of American nationality; but in the past twenty years the Germans have settled in the township, until today the greater number are of that nationality, or descent. They are an industrious, thrifty set and have succeeded in making Fulton rank No.1.

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad passes through the northern tier of sections, entering on section 1, and running westerly passes out of the county on the northwestern corner of section 6. The village of Stockton is located on section 4, on the line of this railroad. It was laid out about the time the railroad was surveyed through this section. A. C. Fuller erected the first building in the town, which was used as a hotel. The post office was established here in 1855. The first death in the place was that of Thomas Barron. A school house was built here in 1856, and an addition was made to it in 1875, when the graded system was introduced. Stockton is a good shipping point, one of the best on the line of railroad ; the country being noted for its fine stock.

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