Lewis C. Buckner

Historical marker location:

812 Old Douglas Dam Rd, Sevierville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Old Douglas Dam Road, on the left when traveling north.)

circa 1856-1924.

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.