Built and opened in 1933 with funding from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Fuller Park was named for Cornell G. Fuller, mayor of Barnwell from 1932 to 1938 and chair of this and other New Deal-era public projects in Barnwell. The park included a swimming pool and bathhouse, dance pavilion, tennis courts, and baseball stadium, and the minor league Albany (N.Y.) Senators held spring training there for several years in the 1930s and 1940s. Fuller, an Ohio native, was a contractor and early innovator in building roads of asphalt instead of concrete. He moved his company to Barnwell in 1928 and paved 50 miles of some of the state's earliest asphalt roads in Barnwell County. In 1932, Fuller, with S.C. Senator Edgar A. Brown and Perry A. Price, founded the Bank of Barnwell. When the Barnwell County Public Library was founded in 1953, Fuller and his wife Effie Barber Fuller donated their house as the new library.