Global War on Terrorism

Historical marker location:

Bourne, Massachusetts

( Memorial can be reached from the intersection of Memorial Circle and Bennington Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.)

Massachusetts National Cemetery.

The Boston Tea Party wasn't the first act of rebellion against British taxation in America. In 1765, colonists in Massachusetts burned effigies of British tax collectors and destroyed their homes and property in what came to be known as the "Stamp Act Riots."