Historical Marker
Forrest's Bivouac
Historical marker location:
McMinnville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Old Rock Island Road (State Highway 288) and Mud Creek Road, on the right when traveling west on Old Rock Island Road.)
July 11, 1862.
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.