Historical Marker
Cottonport
Historical marker location:
9319 Old Smyrna Road, Brentwood, Tennessee
( Marker is on Old Smyrna Road, 0.9 miles west of Edmondson Pike, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1984
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.