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The Fulton Stone House is an original building brought to the Park from the township of Donegal Springs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was the home of Samuel Fulton who emigrated from Co. Donegal in Ireland in the early 18th century. At that time the township of Donegal Springs was a remote frontier outpost inhabited mainly by Scotch-Irish settlers from West Ulster.
Samuel Fulton Stone House
Between 1725 and 1750 Samuel Fulton built this one and half storey stone house, using the fieldstones he found on his land, a method of building with which he had been familiar in Ireland. The Fulton family, like many others, owned livestock, grew a variety of crops such as wheat, flax and rye and their diet would also have included wild game and native fruits and vegetables, which were plentiful in the area. Samuel Fulton's holding of 309 acres, known as Fulton's Pleasure, passed to his son James after his death in 1760. The Fulton family continued to occupy the land at East Donegal until 1778 when it was sold to David Cooke.
The Folk Park acquired the Fulton Stone House in 1997 and dismantled it stone by stone before shipping it to the museum where it has now been re-erected and furnished with artefacts appropriate to the period.
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