Peach Blossom

Historical marker location:

1 Peach Blossom Square, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Peach Blossom Square and Craighead Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Peach Blossom Square.)

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.