Pulaski Street is named after Kazimierz Pulaski (born in Poland on March 4, 1746; died October 11, 1779), a soldier and politician who was called “the father of American cavalry.”
A member of the Polish landed nobility, Pulaski was a military commander fighting Russian domination of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
But his uprising failed and he moved to North America, where he became a General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Savannah.