Historical Marker
High School Common
Historical marker location:
Marlborough, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Rawlins Avenue and Main Street (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling north on Rawlins 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."