Historical Marker
The Public Service Building
Historical marker location:
408 Main Street, Hyannis, Massachusetts
( Marker is on Main Street, 0.1 miles north of Pearl Street, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2013
1928.
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."