Oglesby Community House

Historical marker location:

5724 Edmondson Pike, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Edmondson Pike, 0.1 miles south of Old Hickory Boulevard (Tennessee Highway 254), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1998

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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.