54 Main Street

Historical marker location:

54 S Main St, Lexington, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Main Street just north of Natchez Trace Drive, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1996

A Tennessee Bicentennial Project, 1996.

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.