Kingfield

Historical marker location:

5320 Hargrove Rd, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Hargrove Road, 0.2 miles north of Hargrove Ridge Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1998

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.