Historical Marker
Mendons First Meeting House
Historical marker location:
Mendon, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Hastings Street (Massachusetts Route 16) and Main Street, on the right when traveling east on Hastings Street.)
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."