Historical Marker

Granny White Grave

Historical marker location:
Nashville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Travelers Ridge Drive and Granny White Pike, in the median on Travelers Ridge Drive.)
Marker installed: 1970

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.