General John Calvin Brown

Historical marker location:

Pulaski, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from South Rhodes Street north of East Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling north.)

(1827-1889).

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.