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5 unusual facts about Fulton County


Fulton County, New York

The old Tryon County courthouse, later the Montgomery County courthouse, became the Fulton County Courthouse, where it is the oldest operating courthouse in New York.

Fulton County was also home to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a central pioneer in the women's rights movement in America.

In the mid-18th century, Sir William Johnson, founder of Fort Johnson in Montgomery County and of Johnstown, arrived in the area that would become Fulton County.

Fulton County, Pennsylvania

In 2006, Rick Santorum and Lynn Swann received more than 60% of the Fulton County vote despite their defeats statewide.

Georgia State Senate, District 36

It comprises the city limits of Atlanta and East Point within Fulton County.


Alex W. Bealer

There are five living Bealer children, Alexander, IV (born 1949), of Moorpark, California, Janet B. Rodie and Susie B. Duncan, both of Atlanta, Alice Bealer of Townsend in south Georgia, and Edmund H. Bealer (born 1954) of Sandy Springs north of Atlanta in Fulton County.

Bloom Brothers Department Stores

Bloom Brothers Department Stores were located at sites in Franklin and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, from the company's founding in 1897 as the Old Reliable Conn and Bloom Dry Goods Store until the closing of the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, store in March 1944.

Chattahoochee River 911 Authority

Dunwoody joined in 2011, making it the second multi-county 911 system to span the county line from Fulton into DeKalb (the other being the city of Atlanta, which is also in both counties).

Crystal Spring, Pennsylvania

Crystal Spring is an unincorporated community in Brush Creek Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, south of Breezewood.

Curtis H. Castle

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Practiced in Fulton County, Illinois, and in Wayland, Iowa, until 1882.

Edlyn Lewis

Edlyn Lewis (born 1977) was Miss Fulton County 1996, Miss Georgia USA 1998, and competitor in the Miss USA 1998 pageant.

Georgia State Route 6

It is known as Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway, Jimmy Campbell Parkway, Nathan Dean Parkway, and Wendy Bagwell Parkway in Paulding County; C.H. James Parkway in Cobb County; Thornton Road in Douglas County; and Camp Creek Parkway and honorarily as Tuskegee Airmen Parkway in Fulton County.

Hamilton E. Holmes

The Atlanta native has several landmarks named in his honor including the Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary School in East Point, Georgia; Hamilton E. Holmes Drive (Highway 280) in Fulton County, Georgia; and the H.E. Holmes MARTA station in Atlanta.

Indiana State Road 117

State Road 117 starts at State Road 110, at the Fulton County line, southeast of Culver and travels north past Mystic Hills Golf Course, then along the east edge of Lake Maxinkuckee, and terminates at State Road 10 just east of Culver, near the Culver Military Academy.


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Atlanta Georgia Temple

Special guests at the ground breaking included Georgia Governor George Busbee, Georgia Speaker of the House Tom Murphy, Joe Frank Harris, United States Senators Jake Garn and Paula Hawkins, United States Congressman Elliott Levitas, State Senators Nathan Dean, Joe Thompson, Joe Burton, and Wayne Garner, State Representatives Bill Cummings and Doug Vandiford, and Fulton County Commissioner Michael Lomax.

Morris Brandon Elementary School

Founded in 1947 as part of the Fulton County school district, it has been a part of the Atlanta Public Schools since the annexation of Buckhead in 1952.

New York State Route 399

The route ran northeast through the dense woods along Sweet Road, climbing up the hills of Fulton County south of the Adirondack Park to a junction with North Bush Road, where it turned eastward along North Bush.

North Fulton High School

Johns Creek High School — a high school established in 2009 in Johns Creek, Fulton County, Georgia, and temporarily referred to as the "North Fulton high school" during planning and construction

Atlanta International School — a private grade school and high school that moved in 1995 into the former North Fulton High School building in Buckhead, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA

North Fulton Cooperative — the combined high school sports teams of Cuba High School (Illinois) and Spoon River Valley High School in Fulton County, Illinois, USA, and using the Wildcats nickname

Stone Hall

Stone Hall, Atlanta University, now known as Fountain Hall at Morris Brown College, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Fulton County, Georgia