Captain John Heald

Historical marker location:

Acton, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Carlisle Road, 0.6 miles north of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 27), on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1930

1630 - 1930.

In 1837, Harvard University held a "prostitute parade" where students marched through Boston with prostitutes to protest a law that would have made it illegal to hire women for "immoral purposes."