In 1815 the Fulton, the first steamboat on Long Island Sound, made its first trip from New York to New Haven.
James parochial school and for several years was employed in the Fulton Fish Market.
The principal forest area is in the Adirondack region where the state has a forest preserve (in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties) containing (1909) 1, 53 0, 559 acres, and there is as much or more in private preserves and in tracts owned by lumbermen.
Livingstone and Robert Fulton, was prominent in the development of steam navigation.
Alexandria was named in honour of Alexander Fulton, on whose grant from Spain the first settlement was made in 1785; it was first incorporated as a town in 1818 and received a city charter in 1882.