On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.

The Boston Tea Party, a euphemistic name for a dangerous escalation of hostilities between colonists and the crown, erupted on the Massachusetts coast on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773.

On Dec. 16, 1773 colonists protested taxation without representation by tossing British tea into Boston Harbor, ... adjacent to the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum has honored 87 participants of the tea party since 2019. ... Rather the colonists would have used Indigenous imagery in a more symbolic way.

More than two months away from the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, organizers say they have already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into marking the grand occasion, a total the… ...

On this day in 1773, in Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists boarded three British merchant vessels and, over the course of the next three hours, dumped 342 chests of tea into the water.

The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum and the city of Boston are joining forces to place commemorative markers at the graves of those who participated in the Dec. 16, 1773 protest.

About 100 colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest a British tea tax. They'll do it again on Saturday to commemorate the 244th anniversary of that act of colonial defiance.

Read more on Boston.com. More than a year before the Boston Tea Party, Rhode Island colonists burned a British ship. Skip to Main Content Open Close Menu. Home News. Local News; ...

The Boston Tea Party's 245th anniversary is next month, but until Tuesday, the gravesites of the colonists who participated in the protest that helped spark the American Revolution have never been ...

On the heels of the Boston Tea Party, which protested what American colonists saw as an unfair tax, the town elders of Braintree, including a young John Adams, drafted a statement of protest and ...