Historical Marker

Cistern and Root Cellar

Historical marker location:
1825 Wilson Pike, Brentwood, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Marcella Vivrette Smith Park Road.)
Marker installed: 2014

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.