Historical Marker
Civil War Memorial
Historical marker location:
Chicopee, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Front Street and Bonneville Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Front 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."