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Fulton County, KY
Listed: 08/01/2003
The Fulton Downtown Historic District meets Criterion A, significant for its association with the trading of goods and services as Fulton, Kentucky's historic central business district. Commercial activity was established in the district by about 1870 within a decade of the community's founding. By the end of the nineteenth century the district was densely built up with brick commercial buildings. The district's primacy in Fulton's commercial life continued into the post- World War II period and did not decline until after 1953, the end of the period of significance.
The period of significance extends from ca. 1870, embracing the decade of the 1870s from which fabric from the earliest contributing resource dates, to 1953, embracing post-World War II construction and remodeling in the district. The district is not of exceptional importance for the period after 1953, therefore the period of significance is not extended beyond the National Register fifty-year cut-off. The Fulton Downtown Historic District is eligible at the local level of significance. The National Register defines local significance as: "Importance of a property to the history of its community, such as a town or county". The Fulton Downtown Historic District is important to the history of its community, the city of Fulton.
Fulton, Kentucky owes its existence to the construction of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad from Paducah to the Tennessee line in 1859-60. Chartered in 1852, the NO&O ultimately connected through to Memphis; in later years it was known as the Paducah & Gulf Railroad and the Paducah & Memphis Railroad. A station was established at the junction with the projected Cairo extension of the Mississippi Central Railroad and was later named Fulton after Fulton County (which in turn was named after steamboat innovator Robert Fulton). Prior to the coming of the railroad the town site belonged to a handful of property owners, principal among them Benjamin F. Carr Jr., whose family had begun to acquire land in the Fulton area in the 1820s. The formal platting of streets and lots in Fulton began in earnest in the 1870s but was preceded by apparently piecemeal surveys along Lake Street. In 1860, B. F. Carr sold G. W. Paschall twenty-seven acres in the triangle formed by the railroads and the Tennessee state line across the NO&O from Lake Street, the Main Street portion of the district, and by 1874 Paschall had surveyed this area into lots, streets, and alleyways. The Downtown Fulton Historic District is located almost entirely in the Lake Street and 1874 Paschall surveys.
Fulton experienced rapid growth during the final three decades of the nineteenth century. The town benefited from agricultural production in its hinterland-tobacco and grains were principal crops by 1900 and from enhancements to the state's rail networks, which nearly tripled in mileage between 1870 and 1890. Consolidation of the rail lines serving the town by the Illinois Central in the 1890s linked Fulton to the nationally important carrier and inspired the local newspaper to boast that Fulton was the 1C's "most important crossing in the South."
Fulton County, KY
Listed: 08/01/2003
The Fulton Downtown Historic District meets Criterion A, significant for its association with the trading of goods and services as Fulton, Kentucky's historic central business district. Commercial activity was established in the district by about 1870 within a decade of the community's founding. By the end of the nineteenth century the district was densely built up with brick commercial buildings. The district's primacy in Fulton's commercial life continued into the post- World War II period and did not decline until after 1953, the end of the period of significance.
The period of significance extends from ca. 1870, embracing the decade of the 1870s from which fabric from the earliest contributing resource dates, to 1953, embracing post-World War II construction and remodeling in the district. The district is not of exceptional importance for the period after 1953, therefore the period of significance is not extended beyond the National Register fifty-year cut-off. The Fulton Downtown Historic District is eligible at the local level of significance. The National Register defines local significance as: "Importance of a property to the history of its community, such as a town or county". The Fulton Downtown Historic District is important to the history of its community, the city of Fulton.
Fulton, Kentucky owes its existence to the construction of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad from Paducah to the Tennessee line in 1859-60. Chartered in 1852, the NO&O ultimately connected through to Memphis; in later years it was known as the Paducah & Gulf Railroad and the Paducah & Memphis Railroad. A station was established at the junction with the projected Cairo extension of the Mississippi Central Railroad and was later named Fulton after Fulton County (which in turn was named after steamboat innovator Robert Fulton). Prior to the coming of the railroad the town site belonged to a handful of property owners, principal among them Benjamin F. Carr Jr., whose family had begun to acquire land in the Fulton area in the 1820s. The formal platting of streets and lots in Fulton began in earnest in the 1870s but was preceded by apparently piecemeal surveys along Lake Street. In 1860, B. F. Carr sold G. W. Paschall twenty-seven acres in the triangle formed by the railroads and the Tennessee state line across the NO&O from Lake Street, the Main Street portion of the district, and by 1874 Paschall had surveyed this area into lots, streets, and alleyways. The Downtown Fulton Historic District is located almost entirely in the Lake Street and 1874 Paschall surveys.
Fulton experienced rapid growth during the final three decades of the nineteenth century. The town benefited from agricultural production in its hinterland-tobacco and grains were principal crops by 1900 and from enhancements to the state's rail networks, which nearly tripled in mileage between 1870 and 1890. Consolidation of the rail lines serving the town by the Illinois Central in the 1890s linked Fulton to the nationally important carrier and inspired the local newspaper to boast that Fulton was the 1C's "most important crossing in the South."
Fulton County, KY
Listed: 08/01/2003
The Fulton Downtown Historic District meets Criterion A, significant for its association with the trading of goods and services as Fulton, Kentucky's historic central business district. Commercial activity was established in the district by about 1870 within a decade of the community's founding. By the end of the nineteenth century the district was densely built up with brick commercial buildings. The district's primacy in Fulton's commercial life continued into the post- World War II period and did not decline until after 1953, the end of the period of significance.
The period of significance extends from ca. 1870, embracing the decade of the 1870s from which fabric from the earliest contributing resource dates, to 1953, embracing post-World War II construction and remodeling in the district. The district is not of exceptional importance for the period after 1953, therefore the period of significance is not extended beyond the National Register fifty-year cut-off. The Fulton Downtown Historic District is eligible at the local level of significance. The National Register defines local significance as: "Importance of a property to the history of its community, such as a town or county". The Fulton Downtown Historic District is important to the history of its community, the city of Fulton.
Fulton, Kentucky owes its existence to the construction of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad from Paducah to the Tennessee line in 1859-60. Chartered in 1852, the NO&O ultimately connected through to Memphis; in later years it was known as the Paducah & Gulf Railroad and the Paducah & Memphis Railroad. A station was established at the junction with the projected Cairo extension of the Mississippi Central Railroad and was later named Fulton after Fulton County (which in turn was named after steamboat innovator Robert Fulton). Prior to the coming of the railroad the town site belonged to a handful of property owners, principal among them Benjamin F. Carr Jr., whose family had begun to acquire land in the Fulton area in the 1820s. The formal platting of streets and lots in Fulton began in earnest in the 1870s but was preceded by apparently piecemeal surveys along Lake Street. In 1860, B. F. Carr sold G. W. Paschall twenty-seven acres in the triangle formed by the railroads and the Tennessee state line across the NO&O from Lake Street, the Main Street portion of the district, and by 1874 Paschall had surveyed this area into lots, streets, and alleyways. The Downtown Fulton Historic District is located almost entirely in the Lake Street and 1874 Paschall surveys.
Fulton experienced rapid growth during the final three decades of the nineteenth century. The town benefited from agricultural production in its hinterland-tobacco and grains were principal crops by 1900 and from enhancements to the state's rail networks, which nearly tripled in mileage between 1870 and 1890. Consolidation of the rail lines serving the town by the Illinois Central in the 1890s linked Fulton to the nationally important carrier and inspired the local newspaper to boast that Fulton was the 1C's "most important crossing in the South."
Fulton County, KY
Listed: 08/01/2003
The Fulton Downtown Historic District meets Criterion A, significant for its association with the trading of goods and services as Fulton, Kentucky's historic central business district. Commercial activity was established in the district by about 1870 within a decade of the community's founding. By the end of the nineteenth century the district was densely built up with brick commercial buildings. The district's primacy in Fulton's commercial life continued into the post- World War II period and did not decline until after 1953, the end of the period of significance.
The period of significance extends from ca. 1870, embracing the decade of the 1870s from which fabric from the earliest contributing resource dates, to 1953, embracing post-World War II construction and remodeling in the district. The district is not of exceptional importance for the period after 1953, therefore the period of significance is not extended beyond the National Register fifty-year cut-off. The Fulton Downtown Historic District is eligible at the local level of significance. The National Register defines local significance as: "Importance of a property to the history of its community, such as a town or county". The Fulton Downtown Historic District is important to the history of its community, the city of Fulton.
Fulton, Kentucky owes its existence to the construction of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad from Paducah to the Tennessee line in 1859-60. Chartered in 1852, the NO&O ultimately connected through to Memphis; in later years it was known as the Paducah & Gulf Railroad and the Paducah & Memphis Railroad. A station was established at the junction with the projected Cairo extension of the Mississippi Central Railroad and was later named Fulton after Fulton County (which in turn was named after steamboat innovator Robert Fulton). Prior to the coming of the railroad the town site belonged to a handful of property owners, principal among them Benjamin F. Carr Jr., whose family had begun to acquire land in the Fulton area in the 1820s. The formal platting of streets and lots in Fulton began in earnest in the 1870s but was preceded by apparently piecemeal surveys along Lake Street. In 1860, B. F. Carr sold G. W. Paschall twenty-seven acres in the triangle formed by the railroads and the Tennessee state line across the NO&O from Lake Street, the Main Street portion of the district, and by 1874 Paschall had surveyed this area into lots, streets, and alleyways. The Downtown Fulton Historic District is located almost entirely in the Lake Street and 1874 Paschall surveys.
Fulton experienced rapid growth during the final three decades of the nineteenth century. The town benefited from agricultural production in its hinterland-tobacco and grains were principal crops by 1900 and from enhancements to the state's rail networks, which nearly tripled in mileage between 1870 and 1890. Consolidation of the rail lines serving the town by the Illinois Central in the 1890s linked Fulton to the nationally important carrier and inspired the local newspaper to boast that Fulton was the 1C's "most important crossing in the South."
Fulton County, KY
Listed: 08/01/2003
The Fulton Downtown Historic District meets Criterion A, significant for its association with the trading of goods and services as Fulton, Kentucky's historic central business district. Commercial activity was established in the district by about 1870 within a decade of the community's founding. By the end of the nineteenth century the district was densely built up with brick commercial buildings. The district's primacy in Fulton's commercial life continued into the post- World War II period and did not decline until after 1953, the end of the period of significance.
The period of significance extends from ca. 1870, embracing the decade of the 1870s from which fabric from the earliest contributing resource dates, to 1953, embracing post-World War II construction and remodeling in the district. The district is not of exceptional importance for the period after 1953, therefore the period of significance is not extended beyond the National Register fifty-year cut-off. The Fulton Downtown Historic District is eligible at the local level of significance. The National Register defines local significance as: "Importance of a property to the history of its community, such as a town or county". The Fulton Downtown Historic District is important to the history of its community, the city of Fulton.
Fulton, Kentucky owes its existence to the construction of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad from Paducah to the Tennessee line in 1859-60. Chartered in 1852, the NO&O ultimately connected through to Memphis; in later years it was known as the Paducah & Gulf Railroad and the Paducah & Memphis Railroad. A station was established at the junction with the projected Cairo extension of the Mississippi Central Railroad and was later named Fulton after Fulton County (which in turn was named after steamboat innovator Robert Fulton). Prior to the coming of the railroad the town site belonged to a handful of property owners, principal among them Benjamin F. Carr Jr., whose family had begun to acquire land in the Fulton area in the 1820s. The formal platting of streets and lots in Fulton began in earnest in the 1870s but was preceded by apparently piecemeal surveys along Lake Street. In 1860, B. F. Carr sold G. W. Paschall twenty-seven acres in the triangle formed by the railroads and the Tennessee state line across the NO&O from Lake Street, the Main Street portion of the district, and by 1874 Paschall had surveyed this area into lots, streets, and alleyways. The Downtown Fulton Historic District is located almost entirely in the Lake Street and 1874 Paschall surveys.
Fulton experienced rapid growth during the final three decades of the nineteenth century. The town benefited from agricultural production in its hinterland-tobacco and grains were principal crops by 1900 and from enhancements to the state's rail networks, which nearly tripled in mileage between 1870 and 1890. Consolidation of the rail lines serving the town by the Illinois Central in the 1890s linked Fulton to the nationally important carrier and inspired the local newspaper to boast that Fulton was the 1C's "most important crossing in the South."