Chattanooga's Railroads

Historical marker location:

1400 Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Market Street (Tennessee Route 8) north of East 14th Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Strategically Important.

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.