Place:Pulaski, Giles, Tennessee, United States

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NamePulaski
Alt namesTuluskisource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS47038054
TypeCity
Coordinates35.196°N 87.034°W
Located inGiles, Tennessee, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Maplewood Cemetery
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Pulaski is a city in Giles County, Tennessee . The population was 7,870 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Giles County. It was named to honor the Polish-born American Revolutionary War hero Kazimierz Pułaski. Pulaski is most well known for being the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. It is also home of the semi-annual Diana Singing, sponsored by the Churches of Christ, which attracts over 3,000 people to the town in June and September.

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Pulaski was founded in 1809. The vicinity of Pulaski was the site of a number of skirmishes during the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the Civil War. In 1863, Confederate Sam Davis was hanged in Pulaski by the Union Army for espionage.

In 1865, during the early days of the Reconstruction Era, the city became the birthplace of the first Ku Klux Klan, founded by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army. John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones established the KKK in Pulaski on December 24, 1865.

Martin Methodist College was founded in Pulaski in 1870.

Pulaski is home to former University of Tennessee Volunteers forward, Tyler Smith. He was an NBA prospect before his dismissal from the team.

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