Captain Richard Beers

Historical marker location:

Northfield, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Miller Falls Road (Massachusetts Route 63) close to S. Mountain Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1930

1630 - 1930.

In 1773, the Boston Tea Party occurred, where American colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation.