Miles (Myles) Bridge

Historical marker location:

Swansea, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Old Providence Road, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1997

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."