Restoring the Chestnut

Historical marker location:

1101 Hillview Lane, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Columbia Pike (U.S. 31) 0.1 miles south of Hillview Lane, on the right when traveling south.)

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.