Historical Marker
Southbridge Veterans Monument
Historical marker location:
Southbridge, Massachusetts
( Memorial is at the intersection of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 131) and Walnut Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.)
Marker installed: 1976
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."