Historical Marker
Built 1963
Historical marker location:
101 1st Avenue SW, Winchester, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of 1st Avenue SW and South Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling east on 1st Avenue SW.)
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.