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Fulton is a small coastal town in Aransas County, Texas, founded in 1866 and named for George Ware Fulton, Sr., a land developer whose wife Harriet inherited some 11,000 acres on the northern end of the Live Oak Peninsula.

Fulton's showpiece is the Fulton Mansion State Historic Site, the ornate three-story Second Empire home George Fulton built in 1874-76, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is now open to the public as a museum.

Fulton had a population of 1,523 at the 2020 census, living in about 542 households, making it a quiet fishing and retirement community on the western shore of Aransas Bay just north of Rockport, the county seat.

About 43% of Fulton's total area of 2.5 square miles is water, so the town is wrapped in bays, harbors and wetlands and its economy has always revolved around the Gulf of Mexico.

In its early decades Fulton was a cattle slaughtering and beef-packing center, where South Texas herds were processed and shipped out by water until railroads reached the area in the 1880s, and it even had a turtle-canning plant in the 1890s.

Fulton briefly gave up its own name in 1888, when citizens voted to rename the town Aransas City after an earlier 1830s community on the peninsula, but the name had been changed back to Fulton by 1900.

Every March the Fulton Fire Department sponsors Fulton Oysterfest, a multi-day festival celebrating the local oyster industry with oyster eating and shucking contests, a parade, carnival and live music.

All of Fulton is served by the Aransas County Independent School District, and the town did not incorporate until the 1970s despite being founded more than a century earlier.