Rest Haven Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on 4th Avenue North north of North Margin Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1996

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.