Donald R. Bernard

Historical marker location:

Fairhaven, Massachusetts

( Marker can be reached from Fort Street west of Beacon Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1993

1932-1993.

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."