44th Missouri Infantry

Historical marker location:

1104 Columbia Ave, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Columbia Avenue (Business U.S. 31) north of Strahl Street, on the left when traveling north.)

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.