Roland Hayes

Historical marker location:

901 Woodmore Ln, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on Woodmore Lane just south of Drummond Lane, on the right when traveling south.)

1887-1977.

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.