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City of Fulton

Located just 7 miles south of Interstate 70 on U.S. 54, Fulton is the largest city in Callaway County Missouri. With a population of just over 12,000 our community has it's share of both residential and commercial development.
Fulton covers an area of land approximately 8 square miles with the incorporation of more land planned. Our city has two institutions of higher learning, William Woods University and Westminster College. We are also home to the Missouri School for the Deaf, The Fulton State Hospital and the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center. The Reception and Diagnostic Center is the central intake point for all inmates entering the Department of Corrections.

During the Spring of 1946 President Harry Truman invited Sir Winston Churchill to accompany him to the campus of Westminster College. When Churchill delivered his "Sinews of Peace" speech he not only addressed Fulton, he sounded a warning that was heard around the world. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent," Churchill told his Fulton audience. As Churchill's "iron curtain" metaphor predicted the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 and remained for 28 years. Eight sections of the original Berlin Wall can be found on the campus of Westminster College near a statue of Churchill.

Since the historic visit of Truman and Churchill in 1946 the Fulton Police Department has been honored to provide security and logistic support for a distinguished list of dignitaries including: U.S. Presidents, Ford, Reagan, and Bush; Soviet President, Mikail Gorbachev and British Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath.