Harry Thomas Burn

Historical marker location:

Niota, Tennessee

( Marker is on West WilIson Street (U.S. 11) north of Burn Road (a.k.a. - Lanetown Rd), on the left when traveling north.)

1895-1977.

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.