Historical Marker
McCarthy Building
Historical marker location:
44 Palmer Street, Lowell, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Palmer Street and Middle Street, on the left when traveling south on Palmer Street.)
Marker installed: 2016
ca. 1892. Downtown Lowell Historic District.
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."