Historical Marker
Samuel Tipton
Historical marker location:
610 East Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, Tennessee
( Marker is on East Elk Avenue east of South Sycamore Street, on the right when traveling east.)
Founder of Elizabethton.
The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.