History · Pulaski

Pulaski’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Pulaski. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

3old images & papers
3recent photos
From Pulaski’s archive · credits on each photo

The story

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Pulaski history shows that during the early years before incorporation on April 26, 1832, the village was known by various other names. It was once called “Fishville” and sometimes it was called “Salmon River”. It was also stated that the name “Pulaski” was often spelled “Polaski”. It was also used for years with the spelling of Polaski from The Palladium Times to official state documents.

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Timeline

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1880s3 items · Pulaski bird's eyeCommons
1890–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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By decade

Pulaski, decade by decade

1890s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Pulaski is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Pulaski has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Pulaski Village Historic District in Richland, 0.1 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Pulaski Village Historic District’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Pulaski?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Pulaski’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Pulaski bird's eye (1885) and it appears here side by side.

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