The
Pulaski
Monument

On October 1, 1936 the Polish community in Camden announced that a monument to Casimir Pulaski would be dedicated on October 11. The monument was placed at a park that lay at Benson Street and Haddon Avenue. The park came to be known as Pulaski Park.

At the dedication there were many notables and dignitaries. Among the speakers were Mayor Frederick von Nieda, Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann Jr., Monsignor Arthur B. Strenski of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, and Congressman Charles A. Wolverton.

When Camden's Pulaski Park was designated to be the site of a new medical school, the monuments that were there had to be relocated. The South Jersey Division of the Polish American Congress, along with Polish Army Veterans Post 121 and the Polish American Citizens Committee raised funds to move the Pulaski Monument to a new site. In 1984 the monument was moved to Cooper River Park, at Park Drive and Route 130 in Pennsauken, NJ in 1984. A new monument to Thaddeus Kosciusko was also dedicated that October. 

The two original monuments to Thaddeus Kosciusko and Casimir Pulaski were joined in 1995 by a new monument dedicated to those members of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church located at 10th & Liberty Streets in Camden who gave their lives for our country in World War II. Information from a plaque inside the church was the basis for this monument. site of the three monuments is no known as 

The site of the three monuments is now known as
 POLISH HEROES WAR MEMORIAL at COOPER RIVER PARK.  

October 12, 1936

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MONUMENT OF COUNT
GENERAL CASIMIR PULASKI
In its new home at Cooper River Park