Historical Marker
Veterans Memorial
Historical marker location:
Hyannis, Massachusetts
( Memorial can be reached from Ocean St, 0.2 miles north of Gosnold St, on the left when traveling south.)
American Legion Post 206. Hyannis, Massachusetts.
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."