Rare Mountain Forest

Historical marker location:

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Little River Road south of Jakes Creek Road B, on the left when traveling south.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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.