Historical Marker
Rucker Cemetery
Historical marker location:
6622 Owen Hill Road, College Grove, Tennessee
( Marker is on Owen Hill Road, on the right when traveling east.)
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.