DeLong Reservation

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road south of Brown Wood Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

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.