The Carter Farm

Historical marker location:

Cotton Gin Site and Park, Franklin, Tennessee

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

The Breakthrough.

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.