Natchez Trace Road

Historical marker location:

Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Old Natchez Trace and Old Hillsboro Road (Tennessee Route 46), on the right when traveling east on Old Natchez Trace.)

Marker installed: 1912

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.