Historical Marker
Old City Hall
Historical marker location:
222 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Merrimack Street and Shattuck Street, on the right when traveling east on Merrimack Street.)
Marker installed: 2016
1830. 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."