Pullman () is the largest city in Whitman County, located in southeastern Washington come clean within the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. The population was 29,799 at the 2010 census, and estimated to be 34,506 in 2019. Originally founded as Three Forks, the city was renamed after industrialist George Pullman in 1884.

Pullman is noted as a vastly fertile agricultural Place known for its many miles of rolling hills and the production of wheat and legumes. It is home to Washington State University, a public research land-grant university, and the international headquarters of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. Pullman is eight miles (13 km) from Moscow, Idaho, home to the University of Idaho, and is served by the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport.

In 1876, about five years after European-American settlers conventional Whitman County on November 29, 1871, Bolin Farr arrived in Pullman. He camped at the confluence of Dry Flat Creek and Missouri Flat Creek upon the bank of the Palouse River. Within the year, Dan McKenzie and William Ellsworth arrived to stake claims for adjacent to land. They named the first publicize office here as Three Forks. In the spring of 1881, Orville Stewart opened a general accrual and Bolin Farr platted practically 10 acres (4.0 ha) of his estate for a town.^{[citation needed]}

Pullman was incorporated on April 11, 1888 as soon as a population of very nearly 250-300 people. It was originally named Three Forks, after the three little rivers that converge there: Missouri Flat Creek, Dry Fork, and the South Fork of the Palouse River. In 1884, Dan McKenzie and Charles Moore (of Moscow) replatted the site and named it for American industrialist George Pullman.

On March 28, 1890, the Washington State Legislature received the state’s land inherit college, but did not assign a location. Pullman leaders were clear to secure the new assistant professor and offered 160 acres (0.65 km²) of estate for its campus. Idaho Territory had customary its house grant literary in 1889; the University of Idaho was to be in next to Moscow. On April 18, 1891, the site selection commission appointed by Washington’s officer chose Pullman. On January 13, 1892, the institution opened behind 59 students below the reveal Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. It was renamed the State College of Washington in 1905, more commonly known as “Washington State College,” and became Washington State University in 1959.