Camp Stevens Muster Ground

Historical marker location:

99 Fitchburg Road, Ayer, Massachusetts

( Marker can be reached from Groton-Shirley Road north of Fitchburg Road (Massachusetts Route 21), on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1915

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."