Federal Underground Route

Historical marker location:

Kingsport, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Lyn Garden Drive (State Highway 36) and West Carters Valley Road (State Highway 346), on the right when traveling north on Lyn Garden Drive.)

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.