Historical Marker
Built 1950
Historical marker location:
115 1st Avenue NE, Winchester, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of 1st Avenue NE and North College Street, on the right when traveling west on 1st Avenue NE.)
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.