Sullivan County Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

3397 Bristol Highway, Blountville, Tennessee

( Memorial is on Bristol Highway (State Highway 126) just east of State Highway 394, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1994

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.