Fulshear ( FUUL-shər) is a city in northwest Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, and is located upon the western edge of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The population was 16,856 as of the 2020 census.

The chronicles of Fulshear is nearby intertwined once the historical actions leading happening to Texas Independence and eventual statehood within the United States of America. The small agricultural community traces its origins to the initiation of Churchill Fulshear, one of Stephen F. Austin’s original Old Three Hundred. He moved from Tennessee to Texas in the summer of 1824 behind his wife, Betsy Summers, daughter, Mary, and three sons, Benjamin, Graves, and Churchill Fulshear, Jr.

As a man as soon as considerable plenty and property, Churchill Fulshear Sr. obtained on July 16, 1824, a land come to from the Mexican executive and Stephen F. Austin that allowed him and his associates to fall in with in Austin’s colony. He time-honored a slave plantation that raised cotton, corn, rice, pecans and livestock. Churchill Fulshear Sr. died upon January 18, 1831, with the plantation ownership passed onto his youngest son, Churchill Fulshear, Jr., who extra a cotton gin and flour mill which flourished capably into the late 1880s.

During the Texas Revolution, Churchill Jr. and his two brothers, Graves and Benjamin, served as scouts for the Texan army as the Mexican army under the command of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna pursued Sam Houston’s army and civilians who fled after Santa Anna’s victory at the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. The Fulshear Place was on the route of both the Mexicans and the Texan soldiers. Churchill and his brothers scouted Santa Anna’s army as they crossed the Brazos River near their plantation upon April 14, 1836.