feet of which was afterwards used for the Fulton Hall project, running back 148 feet to Water Street. Ellis & Evans record that the prisoners first occupied the new prison at east end of city on September 12, 1851. On May 4, 1852, Christopher Hager took out a permit for the erection of Fulton Hall

existing chrono- logical record of the history of one of Lancaster's most fascinating structures. For just one example, it required a tremendous amount of of patient digging into original newspaper files to uncover the exact date when Fulton Hall became Fulton Opera House. With only the "approximate

Journal of the LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Reminiscences of the Fulton Opera House by Doris Burns The purpose of the following reminiscences is to share with many people the golden days of theatre in Lancaster at the Fulton Opera House as remembered by several Lancastrians who recall those

World's Famous Pugilists Box at the Fulton Opera House by Johnny Hauck Some time ago my friend, Jack Loose, teacher, historian, and editor of the Journal,asked me to write a story about some of the famous great pugilists who boxed at the Fulton Opera House. The story of the opera house and how it