Historical Marker

Native American Raid

Historical marker location:
West Newbury, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Turkey Hill Street and Arrowhead Way, on the right when traveling north on Turkey Hill Street.)

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."