Richard "Dick" Poyner

Historical marker location:

5746 Pinewood Rd, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Pinewood Road (State Highway 46) and Moore Lane, on the left when traveling south on Pinewood Road.)

(1802-1862).

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.