River Cane

Historical marker location:

170 1st Ave N, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on 1st Avenue North, 0.1 miles north of Broadway (U.S. 70), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2017

Fort Nashborough.

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying, is now the National Civil Rights Museum.