Rhea County / Hamilton County

Historical marker location:

Graysville, Tennessee

( Marker is on J Lon Foust Highway / Rhea County Highway (U.S. 27 at milepost 0), 0.6 miles south of Old Graysville Road (State Route 303), on the right when traveling north.)

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.