Historical Marker
Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail
Historical marker location:
Kingsport, Tennessee
( Marker is on Netherland Inn Road west of Ridgefields Road, on the left 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.