Forest Hill

Historical marker location:

5023 Carters Creek Pike, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Carters Creek Pike (State Highway 246) 0.7 miles south of Bear Creek Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1999

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.