Historical Marker
Breckinridge's Division
Historical marker location:
86 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is on South Crest Road north of East Main Street.)
Marker installed: 1890
Breckinridge's Corps.
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.