KKK fliers discovered in Maine neighborhoods in late January 2017 shocked residents and led to a community meeting in Freeport. Here's a look back at the Klan's history in Maine.

The first daylight Ku Klux Klan parade and the first Klan parade in New England took place in Milo on Sept. 3, 1923.

A Ku Klux Klan member on horseback leads a parade of KKK members during Brownville Junction’s centennial celebration in 1924.

A Ku Klux Klan procession through the streets of Portland around 1923.

1924 photograph of the Ku Klux Klan headquarters of the Witham Klavern in Portland in the 400 block Forest Avenue. The property was the former Rollins estate.

Detail of a photo showing Ku Klux Klan members from across Maine, along with their wives and children, gathered in Portland for a field day and parade on August 28, 1926. They posed for this photo behind the Portland Exposition Building, at right, where Hadlock Field now stands.

A KKK leader from Connecticut raises his fist at a rally for the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan that was held a farm in Rumford in 1987.

KKK members prepare a cross to be burned during a rally held on a farm in Rumford in 1987

About 150 protesters far outnumbered KKK members at a rally held on a farm in Rumford in 1987

A KKK member poses for photographers during a rally held on a farm in Rumford in 1987.

Lead by the group’s national leader Imperial Wizard James W. Farrands and wearing traditional robes of the Invisible Empire, Ku Klux Klan members form a circle around a burning cross in Rumford on Sept. 27, 1987.

A KKK leader from Connecticut engages with a bystander during a march in South Portland in 1988.