Winston Churchill Memorial

An extraordinary statesman defines a singular moment in history. Sir Winston Churchill's best-remembered words were uttered not in England, but at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in an address entitled "Sinews of Peace":
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent..."

The Memorial is located on the college campus in Fulton, Missouri, the site of Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech. The Memorial was founded in 1969 to honor the life and legacy of one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century. It is housed within the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a 12th century church from the middle of London, redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677, that was relocated to Fulton. The undercroft of this beautiful and historic Wren church is a museum filled with a priceless treasury of artifacts and information relating to the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill himself was intrigued by the imaginative idea of a restored Wren church in America's heartland. He wrote, "It may symbolize in the eyes of the English-speaking peoples the ideals of Anglo-American association on which rest, now as before, so many of our hopes for peace and the future of mankind."

Kings Row
Henry Bellamann, (Born April 28, 1882 in Fulton, MO - Died June 16, 1945 in New York City, NY), was the author of the best selling book, "Kings Row." He was a talented writer with many books under his pen, but Kings Row was his claim to fame. Fulton is said to have been Bellamann's model for the fictional town of Kings Row, generating questions about the resemblance it had to individuals and situations around the area. The book was later turned into an Academy Award nominated film for best picture, and starred Ronald Reagan and Robert Cummings.