Historical Marker
Indian Gap Road
Historical marker location:
Clingmans Dome Road, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
( Marker is on Clingmans Dome Road, 1.3 miles west of U.S. 441, on the right when traveling west.)
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.