of
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 246-247
FULTON TOWNSHIP. March 4, 1857, Fulton township was organized. It lies in the extreme northeastern part of the county and is bounded on the north and east by Scott county, on the south by Montpelier township, and on the west by Wilton and Sweetland township. All of congressional township 78, range 1 east is within its confines. Fulton is almost exclusively prairie land. No finer agricultural region can be found anywhere, the farms being very productive and their owners, prosperous and independent. Among the first settlers in the township were J. C. Newell, Thomas Prickley, Andrew Smith, John Barron, Alfred Nye, Henry Parr, John Stigers, A. D. Silverthorn, who came with his parents in 1838; James Schoonover. Many Germans have settled in the township and today the greater number of residents here are of that nationality or descent. They have succeeded in making Fulton rank with the best in the county.
Fulton has eight school sub-districts and the average duration at each school for teaching is nine months in the year.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad enters on section 9, running north to Petersburg Station, on section 13, and thence northwest forming a junction with the main line of the Rock Island at Stockton. The village of Stockton was laid out about the time the railroad was surveyed through this section. The site of the hamlet is on section 4. A. C. Fulton erected the first building in the town, which was used as a hotel. The postoffice was established there in 1855. The first death in Stockton was that of Thomas Barron. In 1856, a schoolhouse was built and an addition was made to it in 1875, when it became a graded school. In this section. a great many cattle and fine stock are raised, which makes Stockton a great shipping point.
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