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Pulaski| Seat of Giles County southern-central Tennessee, USA, 48 km/30 mi south of Columbia, on Richland Creek; population (1990) 7,900. It is an agricultural market, processing, and distribution centre. The Ku Klux Klan, a secret society dedicated to white supremacy, was founded in Pulaski in 1865 by six former Confederate army officers. Pulaski is also the birthplace of poet and critic John Crowe Ransom. |
Pulaski| Seat of Pulaski County, southwestern Virginia, USA, in the Great Appalachian Valley, just west of Claytor Lake (on the New River) 19 km/12 mi southwest of Radford; population (1990) 10,000. Situated at a railway junction, it is a trade and industrial centre for a livestock, dairying, and lumbering area. Furniture, chemicals, and wood products are manufactured. |
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