Fort/Stockade

Historical marker location:

151 Walnut Street, Collierville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Walnut Street south of College Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Civil War Walking Trail.

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.