Mexican War Monument

Historical marker location:

Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Public Square and North Military Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Public Square.)

Marker installed: 1849

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.