Pride Mansion

Historical marker location:

416 W Broadway Ave, Maryville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of West Broadway Avenue (U.S. 411) and West Lamar Alexander Parkway (U.S. 321), on the right when traveling north on West Broadway Avenue.)

The first known protest against British taxation in America occurred in Tennessee in 1768, more than a decade before the famous Boston Tea Party. A group of settlers in the Watauga Association signed a petition protesting the British government's attempt to impose taxes on them without their consent.