Maury-Darby Building

Historical marker location:

304 Public Square, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (Business U.S. 31) and 3rd Avenue North, on the left when traveling north on West Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1991

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.