Historical Marker

Indian Reservation

Historical marker location:
Grafton, Massachusetts
( Marker is on Brigham Hill Road, 0.6 miles west of Providence Road (U.S. 122), on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1930

1630 - 1930.

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."