Historical Marker
George Washington Memorial
Historical marker location:
235 Main Street, Southbridge, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 131) and Foster Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.)
Marker installed: 1932
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."