Named after Polish Count Casimir Pulaski, the town of Pulaski was established in western Bulloch County in 1900 as a railroad town and by 1901 was included in passenger train service from Savannah to Dublin. H. Lehman Franklin and George O. Franklin bought land from local farmers J. H. Warren and J. W. Williams and built a hotel and several storefronts. The community supported warehouses, a general mercantile, a cotton gin, drug store, shoe store, barber shop, and a turpentine factory, and in 1924 the largest employer was the turpentine distillery, whose barrels were sent to Savannah by rail. Dr. J. Z. Patrick served as the community physician until his death in 1953. Pulaski was incorporated in 1905. Two banks, Citizens Bank of Pulaski from 1907 to 1911 and the Farmer’s Bank from 1912 to 1929, operated there. Electricity came during 1929–30 and city water in 1965. The first school and gymnasium were built in 1920. The Pulaski Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1888, and Mount Zion Methodist Church was built to serve the local African American community. In 1914, when Candler County was created, Pulaski was appropriated from Bulloch County. With the consolidation of schools, the demise of the railroad, and better highways, Pulaski is no longer the busy hub of activity it was in former years.