Cleburne's Division

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Shallowford Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1890

Breckinridge's Corps.. Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne.

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.