The Fulton school was located west of Ottobine on what is now Route 731 a short distance north of its intersection with Route 742. The original building, constructed in 1879, was a one-room frame building. The school operated as a one-room school until the building was destroyed by fire in the fall of 1916. At this time the Ashby District school board and the community decided to build a two-room brick structure using a State Board of Education plan that had been used earlier at Montezuma and several other locations in the county. The early teachers at the Fulton school are unknown. Teachers known to have taught at the Fulton School are;
1909-10 Charles E. Thacker
1911-12 Bessie Arnold
1912-13 Ethel Harman
1913-14 Ora Swecker
1914-15 Emory L. Minnich
1915-16 Delphia Young
1916-17 Edna Snyder (school burned during this session)
1917-18 Edna Snyder, Nellie F. Coffman
1918-19 C. L. B. Anderson
1919-20 M. G. Lilly, Lillian L. Moore
1920-21 R. R. Kerns, Jennie Simpson
1921-22 Charles H. Mason, Oma Cupp
1922-24 (two sessions) Roy H. Wright, Nora Heatwole
1924-25 Gilbert Mowbray, Tracie Cupp
1925-26 Tracie Cupp, Mary Revercomb
1926-27 Ralph Moyers, Mary Revercomb
1927-30 (three sessions) Stella Kiracofe, Pauline Shiflet
1930-31 Lorene Wintermyre, Pauline Shiflet
1931-32 Hazel I. Moore, Pauline Shiflet
1932-33 Hazel I. Moore, Ruth Kiracofe
1933-34 Ruth Kiracofe
1934-38 (four sessions) Alvan R. Kerns
1938-40 (two sessions) Sem W. Swope
1940-43 (three sessions) Marie T. Cox
The Fulton School closed in 1943.
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