Fulton

Town and administrative headquarters of Callaway County, central Missouri; population (1990) 10,000. It is located 35 km/22 mi east-southeast of Columbia, in a rich grain growing region that also produces clay and coal. It is a trade and processing centre. Among its manufactures are firebrick, farm and industrial machinery, shoes, and processed foods.

During the Civil War it was the centre of the ‘Kingdom of Callaway’, formed when the county seceded from the USA. Winston Churchill's ‘Iron Curtain’ speech was delivered here at Westminster College (1851) on 5 March 1946. On the campus is the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library, which includes Christopher Wren's Church of St Mary Aldermanbury, an 18th-century London structure largely destroyed during the 1940 blitz, then brought here and reconstructed as a tribute to Churchill. Fulton is also home to William Woods College (1870).

Fulton

Town in Oswego County, central New York; population (1990) 12,900. It is situated on the Oswego River, 40 km/25 mi northwest of Syracuse and 18 km/11 mi south of Lake Ontario. Fulton is primarily a manufacturing city, producing frozen foods, candy, cork, plastic, waxed cardboard, bottles, and paper-mill machinery.

The area surrounding the Oswego River Falls, now the centre of the town, was an important strategic point during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Intense growth followed the opening of the Oswego Canal, which connected the Erie Canal with Lake Ontario in the 1820s.