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THE FULTON HOMESTEAD WASHINGTON COUNTY. PA.
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1609 HUDSON-FULTON 1807
**MANHATTAN SERIES"-sixteen Hudson-Fulton Post Cards published
by The Churchman Company, 434 Lafayette Street, New York, N. Y.
FULTON HOMESTEAD. At the age of seven-
teen, Robert Fulton went to Philadelphia to
pursue his genius. and talent as an artist,
and derived a living from painting portraits and
landscapes and making models of machinery. He
remained there until he was twenty-one years of
age, and enjoyed the acquaintance and society of
Benjamin Franklin. On his twenty-first birthday
he took his mother and sisters from Lancaster to
Washington County, Pa., and purchased a farm for
the sum of $400, thereafter known as the Fulton.
Homestead.
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