Cheatham's Division

Historical marker location:

470 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Portview Place, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1890

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.