Historical Marker

Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.

Historical marker location:
Dandridge, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 25W/70 and Swansylvania Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 25W/70.)

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.