Pulaski (Tennessee)
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 Giles County courthouse in Pulaski |
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| Location in Tennessee | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1809 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Tennessee | ||
| County : | Giles County | ||
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 12 ′ N , 87 ° 2 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 7,871 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 463 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 17.0 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) of which 17.0 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 213 m | ||
| Postal code : | 38478 | ||
| Area code : | +1 931 | ||
| FIPS : | 47-61040 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1298659 | ||
| Website : | www.pulaski-tn.com | ||
| Mayor : | Daniel M. Speer | ||
Pulaski is a city in Giles County in the US state of Tennessee in the United States .
Description and history
Pulaski is the county seat of Giles County; it has 7871 inhabitants (as of 2000) and an area of 17.0 km². The city was named in honor of the hero of the American War of Independence , General Kazimierz Pułaski . The city was founded in 1809. There were a number of skirmishes near Pulaski during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign in the American Civil War . In 1863, Confederate Sam Davis was hanged in Pulaski by the US Army for espionage.
In December 1865, in the early days of the Reconstruction era, six former Confederate States Army officers , John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones, who founded the Ku Klux Klan The founding plaque, which had been affixed in honor of the KKK, was turned upside down in protest.
Airport
Abernathy Field is a public airport owned by Pulaski City and Giles County. It is located six kilometers southwest of the Pulaski Central Business District .
sons and daughters of the town
(Sorted by year of birth)
- John Goff Ballentine (1825-1915), politician
- Samuel St. George Rogers (1832–1880), lawyer, plantation owner, politician and officer
- ZW Ewing (1843–1909), politician
- John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), writer and critic
- Keyes Beech (1913-1990), journalist
- Ross Bass (1918-1993), politician
- Larry Birdsong (1934–1990), rhythm and blues singer
education
Pulaski has a high school, Giles County High School, and is home to the Pulaski Tennessee Technology Center and Martin Methodist College .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stanley F. Horn: Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871 . Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation, Montclair, New Jersey 1939, p. 9.
- ↑ Fleming, Walter J., Ku Klux Klan: Its Origins, Growth and Disbandment, p. 27, 1905, Neale Publishing.
- ^ Greg Brown: Backwards Plaque Shuns the KKK . RoadsideAmerica.com. 2000. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ↑ Airportinfo (English)