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Queries

Please feel free to post your query or surname to our Fulton County Query BBS system. NOTE: Your query must reference Fulton County or else it will be removed.

Fulton County Query BBS Board

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Fulton County Resource Information

Fulton County Historical Society
P.O. Box 115
McConnellsburg, PA 17233
Fulton County Courthouse
N. 2nd St.
McConnellsburg, PA 17233
717-485-4212
Fulton County Library
227 N. 1st St.
McConnellsburg, PA 17233-1003
717-485-5327

Fulton County Web Links

If you have a web site with ties to Fulton County, please let me know about it and I will link to it.

"Links to external web sites are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or approval of any of the products, services or opinions contained in any external web site."

The Mort Family Website - contains some names from the vicinity of Fulton County

The PA USGenWeb Family Group Sheet Project

Links related to items for sale

Cemetery Listings

We will be working on a searchable cemetery database. In the meantime, if you have a high-bandwidth connection, you are welcome to download this cemetery listing. We want to thank the Fulton County Historical Society and Glenn Cordell for making it available, and especially this list of volunteers. Recently a correction has been made to the list, a photo of the authenticating family Bible is available which corrects the birthday of Nelson Hess.

(You may prefer to download this zipped full cemetery listing, zipped A-F listing, zipped G-P listing, and zipped Q-Z listing.)

History

If you would to read the memoirs of long time Fulton County resident David Hunter Patterson (1844-1938), please visit here:

Memoirs of David Hunter Patterson

Fulton settler William Patterson (1749-1846) is buried at Big Spring Graveyard. Here is some information about him.

Geography

US Gen Web has a 1916 Fulton County Atlas.

Other maps of Fulton Co. are here.

Here is a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection notebook on Fulton County.

Local Pictures

Here is a photo taken on July 4, 1900 in McConnellsburg

Here is a scene of the farm that was in the Patterson family for nearly 150 years (from 1850 through 1999, on US 522 south of McConnellsburg in Ayr Township):

Patterson Farm

Here is a picture of the dedication of the monument to the last Confederate bivouac in Pennsylvania, taken in 1930. The man on the right is my great grandfather, David Hunter Patterson (also pictured here in 1920).

Here is a picture of the Historical Marker near the Big Spring Graveyard on Route 522 south of McConnellsburg in Ayr Township.

Here is a a recent photo of the Burnt Cabins Grist Mill.

Here are pictures of the Humbert Mill.

If you have other pictures which you think would be appropriate for this web site please

Obituaries Collection and related other scanned documents

Wills Collection and related other scanned documents

Other helpful links.

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