Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Reconstructed eighteenth-century ships where visitors relive the night tea chests went overboard in defiance of British taxes.
This guide to the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum follows the night of December 16, 1773, when nearly five thousand Bostonians packed the Old South Meeting House to argue over a tax on tea, then poured out toward this wharf after the royal governor refused to let the ships sail home. About one hundred fifty men, faces smeared with soot and wrapped in blankets to look like Mohawk warriors, boarded three ships anchored here, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver. Step aboard the reconstructed vessels moored at the same spot, where you can pitch a crate into the harbor yourself.
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