Forrest's Raid

Historical marker location:

Rives, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 45W and Pleasant Hill Road (State Highway 216), on the right when traveling north on U.S. 45W.)

Dec. 23, 1862.

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.