Historical Marker
Gardner Soldiers' Monument
Historical marker location:
1 Cottage Street, Gardner, Massachusetts
( Memorial is at the intersection of Central Street (State Road 101) and Park Street, on the right when traveling west on Central Street.)
Marker installed: 1885
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."