Historical Marker
31st Ohio Infantry
Historical marker location:
Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is on North Crest Road south of Brown Wood Drive.)
Marker installed: 1908
Turchin's Brigade. Baird's Division.
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.