Historical Marker

Glen Oaks

Historical marker location:
203 South Indiana Avenue, LaFollette, Tennessee
( Marker is on South Indiana Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

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.