Bean Station

Historical marker location:

Bean Station, Tennessee

( Marker is on Bean Station Cemetery Road south of Old Lee Hwy (US 11W), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1929

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.