Historical Marker
Cross Keys
Historical marker location:
6724 Cross Keys Rd, College Grove, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Pulltight Hill Road and Cross Keys Road, on the right when traveling west on Pulltight Hill Road.)
Marker installed: 1998
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.