Samuel Beatty's Brigade

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Marker installed: 1890

Wood's Division - Granger's Corps.. Brig. Gen. Samuel Beatty.

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.