Fulton Hill

Fulton Hill is a neighborhood located in the East End of Richmond, Virginia. The name is used for the area stretching from Gillies Creek to the Richmond city limits. The Greater Fulton Hill Civic Association includes Fulton Bottom, part of Montrose Heights and part of Rocketts. The zip code is 23231.

History

This Richmond neighborhood was named for Irish-born James Alexander Fulton, who married Eliza Mayo about 1800 and built a large estate atop current day Powhatan Park. In the 17th century the park was once home to Powhatan Village consisting of twelve dwellings. Tradition holds that Christopher Newport and John Smith first met with Parahunt, Powhatan's son, in May 1607 at this point. In the early 18th century, a ferry was established from a property at the bottom owned by Robert Rocketts to connect the north and south sides of the James River. A neighborhood of low-slung, single-story homes emerged here after the Civil War, and the area was annexed by Richmond from Henrico County in 1905. By the 1960s, the area at the base of the hill bordering Gilies Creek was mostly home to low and middle income African Americans. The housing stock was regarded as rather shabby, and after very severe flood damage in the early 1970s, many residents took Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Act (1970) money and relocated elsewhere in the city. Eventually, the entire Fulton Bottom community was completely demolished, marking Richmond's only neighborhood-wide urban renewal slum clearance.

Fulton Hill (album)

Fulton Hill is the name of a 2004 album by American metal band Alabama Thunderpussy. It is their fifth full-length studio album.

Release history

Fulton Hill was originally released on CD on May 25, 2004 (2004-05-25) as catalog number RR 6621-2. Relapse Records later released it on vinyl on June 8, in a pressing of 1000 (500 on blue vinyl, 500 on black). An additional 100 copies were pressed onto clear vinyl, but these were not available to the public..

It was released on CD in Japan, with a bonus track, on August 29, 2005 (2005-08-29) on 3D Records, as catalog number 1009.

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