Historical Marker
The Legacy Continues
Historical marker location:
250 Beach Road, Orleans, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Beach Road and Surf Path, on the right on Beach Road.)
Lifesaving Heritage of Orleans.
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."