Fulton is a town in Aransas County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, this South Texas coastal fishing community had a population of 1,358. The town is named for George Ware Fulton, a home developer in the area.

Fulton was founded in 1866, and named by George Ware Fulton, Sr., whose wife Harriet Smith Fulton inherited 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) on the northern terminate of the Live Oak Peninsula, including the area where Mr. Fulton created the town he named for himself. Fulton had been a studious in Indiana and established to comply Texas by flatboat subsequently 60 new men during the dogfight for independence in the middle of Texas and Mexico. After the long vacation to Texas, George Fulton found that the war was exceeding but he united the Army of the Republic of Texas for a few months. He worked for Henry Smith, the first Governor of Texas, and married Smith’s daughter, Harriet. They raised a intimates and moved roughly speaking the country as George found jobs supervising railroads and building bridges. When Harriet familial 48,000 acres of the Texas coast, they moved support to live on the Live Oak Peninsula.

After ten years, the Fultons built a large house, now known as the Fulton Mansion, just south of the town. The Fulton’s owned thousands of cattle wandering on their extensive lands, and formed a cattle company later others. Mr. Fulton built slaughterhouses and patented a chilled slaughterhouse, the first in the world. The town speedily became the site for many slaughterhouses as cattle from south Texas were driven to Fulton. The cattle slaughterhouses lasted until the 1880s taking into consideration railroads reached the area and provided ways to ship live cattle to population centers such as Chicago.

In 1930, some evidence of a prehistoric pact was found in the Fulton area, possibly Karankawan.