Historical Marker
Phelps' Brigade
Historical marker location:
300 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Crest Terrace Drive, on the left when traveling north.)
Baird's Division - Palmer's Corps.. Col. Edward H. Phelp's.
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.