Historical Marker
Operations Building
Historical marker location:
847 Orleans Road, Chatham, Massachusetts
( Marker can be reached from Orleans Road (Massachusetts Route 28) 0.1 miles west of Old Comers Road.)
Chatham Marconi Maritime Center.
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."