Historical Marker
Coopers Tavern
Historical marker location:
Arlington, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (U.S. 3) and Medford Street, on the right when traveling west on Massachusetts Avenue.)
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."