George Smith Patton, Jr.

Historical marker location:

2510 S Church St, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Church Street (U.S. 231) 0.1 miles south of Warrior Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

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.