Historical Marker
Amphibious Attack on Linden
Historical marker location:
11668 US-412, Perryville, Tennessee
( Marker is on U.S. 412 (U.S. 412), on the right when traveling west.)
May 12, 1863.
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.