Tennessee

Historical marker location:

Winstead Hill Park, Franklin, Tennessee

( Memorial is on Columbia Pike (U.S. 31) 0.2 miles south of Mack C Hatcher Memorial Parkway, on the right when traveling south.)

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.