Historical Marker
Veterans Marker
Historical marker location:
47680 Highway 69, Saltillo, Tennessee
( Memorial is on State Highway 69, 0.2 miles east of Willis Street, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2007
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.