"Witness Tree"

Historical marker location:

Sturbridge, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Charlton Street north of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 131), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2006

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."