Waverly Place

Historical marker location:

758 Benton Ave, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Benton Avenue just east of 8th Avenue South (U.S. 31), on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1976

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.