Montpier

Historical marker location:

1837 Old Natchez Trace, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Old Natchez Trace, 0.3 miles south of Natchez 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.