Historical Marker

First Settler / Roads and Boundaries

Historical marker location:
470 South St, Foxborough, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of South Street and Cedar St., in the median on South Street.)
Marker installed: 2006

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."
Massachusetts random facts