Historical Marker
Desert Storm Memorial
Historical marker location:
40 West St, Winchendon, Massachusetts
( Memorial is on West Street just north of Oak Street, on the right when traveling north.)
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."