Marathon Motor Car

Historical marker location:

Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Clinton Street and 12th Avenue North, on the right when traveling west on Clinton Street.)

Marker installed: 1979

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.