Historical Marker

First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne

Historical marker location:
5 South Maple St., Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
( Marker is on South Maple St., on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1940

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."
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