Historical Marker

Industrial Heritage

Historical marker location:
876 West 9th Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from West 9th Avenue west of Canal 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.