Historical Marker
Fort Loudoun
Historical marker location:
Vonore, Tennessee
( Memorial is on Fort Loudon Road.)
Marker installed: 1965
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.