Our Confederate Soldiers

Historical marker location:

Public Square, Franklin, Tennessee

( Memorial is at the intersection of Public Square and 3rd Avenue, in the median on Public Square.)

Marker installed: 1899

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.