Historical Marker

Acuff Chapel

Historical marker location:
Blountville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Memorial Boulevard (State Road 126) 0.7 miles west of Barr Road, on the right when traveling west.)

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.