Historical Marker
The Nauset Lights
Historical marker location:
Orleans, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Cable Road and Nauset Light Beach Rd on Cable Road.)
Cape Cod National Seashore.
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."