Watauga Old Fields marker - Elizabethton, TN

Located on the lawn in front of the Carter County Courthouse in Elizabethton, TN it reads

Where the Watauga Association was formed in 1772, being the first place west of the Alleghenies where men joined together in a written compact for civil government and for the preservation of their ideals of liberty.

(then it lists the thirteen elected commisioners)

Erected by the Tennessee Daughters of the American Revolution October 1923