Mound Bottom

Historical marker location:

1325 Cedar Hill Road, Kingston Springs, Tennessee

( Marker is on Cedar Hill Road, 0.4 miles south of Mound Creek Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Tennessee was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist organization that terrorized African Americans and other minority groups throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.