44th Missouri Infantry

Historical marker location:

1104 Columbia Ave, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Columbia Avenue (Business U.S. 31) north of Strahl Street, on the left when traveling north.)

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.