Franklin High School

Historical marker location:

1117 Columbia Ave, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Columbia Avenue (Business U.S. 31) just south of W Fowlkes Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2019

1926 - 1956.

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.