Photograph- Photograph of a miniature of Harriet Livingston Fulton, wife of Robert Fulton, painted by Robert Fulton. Painting may be owned by the New York Historical Society.
Photograph- Photograph of a miniature of Harriet Livingston Fulton, wife of Robert Fulton, painted by Robert Fulton. Painting may be owned by the New York Historical Society.
Description
Photograph of a miniature of Harriet Livingston Fulton, wife of Robert Fulton, painted by Robert Fulton. Painting may be owned by the New York Historical Society.
Memorial tablet at the birthplace of Robert Fulton (1765 - 1815) in Fulton Township, honoring him as the first man to apply steam to navigation successfully.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Memorial bell dedicated to Robert Fulton with an embossed inscription. T. W. Levering, fecit Philadelphia, A. D. 1816. Now Fulton is gone. He is no more but he left his genious to carry us from shore to shore. Union Steamboat. The bell is 16 inches high and 14 and a half inches in diameter.