Carter County Veterans Monument

Historical marker location:

Elizabethton, Tennessee

( Memorial is at the intersection of North Main Street and East Elk Avenue, in the median on North Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1912

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.