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Abraham S. Fulton, brother of steamboat inventor Robert Fulton, is buried in Troy Cemetery near this spot. He was fatally injured while felling trees to build the family home on the site called Fulton Hill. The Fulton family owned extensive acreage in Perry County, having bought the land from Nicholas J. Roosevelt, great-uncle of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, about 1811. Nicholas J. Roosevelt commanded the New Orleans, the first craft propelled by steam upon Western waters, built after Fulton's model. This boat stopped at Troy, one of the few fueling sites along the Ohio.
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Troy, Indiana · United States
