U.S. Post Office

Historical marker location:

1170 S Main St, Milan, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and Church Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.)

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.