Davidson County / Williamson County

Historical marker location:

133 Franklin Road, Brentwood, Tennessee

( Marker is on Franklin Road (U.S. 31) 0.2 miles south of Old Hickory Boulevard (State Highway 254), 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.