Editing Pulaski County, Georgia (section)

==History==
Pulaski County was created by an act of the [[Georgia General Assembly]] on December 13, 1808, from a portion of [[Laurens County, Georgia|Laurens County]].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/p.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030917122451/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/p.pdf |archive-date=September 17, 2003 |url-status=live| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=182 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> In the antebellum years, it was developed for cotton cultivation and is part of the Black Belt of Georgia, an arc of highly fertile soil.

In 1870, [[Dodge County, Georgia|Dodge County]] was partially created from a section of Pulaski County by another legislative act. In 1912, the northeastern half of Pulaski County was used to create [[Bleckley County, Georgia|Bleckley County]] via a constitutional amendment approved by Georgia voters.

The county was named for [[Count]] [[Kazimierz Pułaski]] of [[Poland]] who fought and died for [[United States]] [[independence]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]].

The county population fell by more than half from 1910 to 1930, as residents moved to cities. African Americans especially joined the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to northern and midwestern cities, both to gain work and to escape the [[Jim Crow]] racial oppression of the South.