Fortress Rosecrans

Historical marker location:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Overall Street, 0.2 miles east of Golf Lane, on the left when traveling east.)

Lytle Creek Greenway | Murfreesboro Greenway System.

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.