Old Gray Cemetery

Historical marker location:

543 North Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Broadway (U.S. 441) and Emory Place, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2009

Silent Voices.

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.