City Cemetery

Historical marker location:

329 North Margin Street, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on 4th Avenue North just north of North Margin Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.