Clarence "Tom" Ashley

Historical marker location:

122 South Church Street, Mountain City, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of South Church Street and Donnelly Street, on the right when traveling south on South Church Street.)

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.