City Cemetery

Historical marker location:

1001 4th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee

( Memorial is at the intersection of 4th Avenue South (Tennessee Route 11) and Oak Street, on the right when traveling south on 4th Avenue South.)

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.