Historical Marker
Planters Bank
Historical marker location:
130 E Washington Ave, Athens, Tennessee
( Marker is on East Washington Avenue (Tennessee Route 39) just west of Long Street, on the right when traveling west.)
130 E. Washington Ave.
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.