Editing Shays's Rebellion (section)

==Memorials==
The events and people of the uprising are commemorated in the towns where they lived and those where events took place. Sheffield erected a memorial (pictured above) marking the site of the "last battle" on the Sheffield-[[Egremont, Massachusetts|Egremont]] Road in [[Sheffield, Massachusetts|Sheffield]], across the road from the [[Appalachian Trail]] trailhead. Pelham memorialized Daniel Shays by naming the portion of [[US Route 202]] that runs through Pelham the Daniel Shays Highway. A statue of General Shepard was erected in his hometown of [[Westfield, Massachusetts|Westfield]].<ref>Richards, pp. 117–118</ref>

In the town of [[Petersham, Massachusetts]], a memorial was erected in 1927 by the New England Society of Brooklyn, New York, in commemoration of General Benjamin Lincoln's rout of the Shaysite forces there on the morning of February 4. The lengthy inscription is typical of the traditional, pro-government interpretation, ending with the line, "Obedience to the law is true liberty."<ref name=Peet>{{cite journal|last1=Peet|first1=Richard|title=A Sign Taken for History: Daniel Shays' Memorial in Petersham, Massachusetts|journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers|date=March 1996|volume=86|issue=1|pages=21–43|jstor=2563945|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01744.x}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Shays' Rebellion – Object: Petersham Monument|url=http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/artifact.do?shortName=petersham_monument|access-date=2021-01-08|website=shaysrebellion.stcc.edu}}</ref>