Historical Marker

Built 1934

Historical marker location:
106 1st Avenue NW, Winchester, Tennessee
( Marker is on 1st Avenue NW west of North Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling west.)

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.