Historical Marker

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:
367 Main St, Hyannis, Massachusetts
( Memorial can be reached from Main St, 0.1 miles south of Ocean St, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1983

1959 - 1975.

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."