Historical Marker
Harwich Men
Historical marker location:
80 Parallel Street, Harwich, Massachusetts
( Memorial is at the intersection of Sisson Road (Massachusetts Route 39) and Parallel Street, on the left when traveling north on Sisson Road.)
Marker installed: 1976
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."