First Telephone Office

Historical marker location:

110 W Commerce St, Loretto, Tennessee

( Marker is on West Commerce Street, 0.1 miles west of South Military Street (U.S. 43), on the left when traveling west.)

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.