Lest We Forget

Historical marker location:

Bourne, Massachusetts

( Memorial can be reached from the intersection of Connery Avenue and Bennington Blvd.)

Marker installed: 1987

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."