Pullman is the largest city in Whitman County, Washington, United States. The population was 24,675 at the 2000 census, and 29,799 in 2010 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Originally incorporated as Three Forks, the city was later renamed after George Pullman.Pullman is best known as the home of Washington State University, a four-campus land-grant university, and of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, an international firm in the power industry. Eight miles east of Pullman is Moscow, Idaho, home of the University of Idaho.