Clay County Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

100 Court Square, Celina, Tennessee

( Memorial is on Main Street south of Dow Avenue (Tennessee Highway 52), 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.