Pulaskifield, Missouri

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Pulaskifield
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Pulaskifield
Coordinates: 36°52′21″N94°00′39″W / 36.87250°N 94.01083°W / 36.87250; -94.01083
Country United States
State Missouri
County Barry
Settled1893
unincorporated community 1835
Elevation
1,270 ft (390 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
65708, 65723
Area code 417
FIPS code 29/60104 [1]
GNIS feature ID735810 [2]

Pulaskifield is an unincorporated community located in Capps Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

The area was originally known as Bricefield [3] (named for J. Brice Hudson whose father owned the land on which the general store of August Dombroski (first postmaster) was located and in which the post office was established in 1893); archaically misspelled Brassfield or Brycefield.

The area was locally known under the community name of Pulaskifield, but officially changed to that name in 1930 [4] by request of the large group of Polish immigrants who bought land and began farming, beginning in the late 1870s, in an approximate two-mile radius of the crossing point of Missouri Route 97 and Barry County Farm Road 2040. The community was renamed to honor Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman and Revolutionary Continental Army Brigadier General remembered as a hero who fought for independence and freedom both in Poland and in the United States.

References

  1. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. Bell, Margaret E. (1933). Place Names in the Southwest Border Counties of Missouri (M.A. thesis). University of Missouri-Columbia.
  4. "The Neosho Times". Page 3. July 3, 1930. Retrieved December 28, 2015 via Newspapers.com.