51st Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

701 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road west of Waheela Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1908

Whitaker's Brigade. Cruft's Division.

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.