Disaster Strikes Again ... Courthouse Rises from Ashes

Historical marker location:

2 Millennium Plaza, Clarksville, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from South 2nd Street (Tennessee Route 76) south of Franklin Street, on the left when traveling south.)

1900-1999.

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.