The Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum, Boston MA. Step back into our past and explore why a group of colonists used Boston Harbor to make their stand.

On a cold winter night in December the protagonists of our story boarded the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver dumping 342 chests of British tea into the frigid waters below. (One of the chests is on display in our museum.)

So, welcome to the revolution and to the city known as “the cradle of Liberty.”

DYN— Chests of tea wasn’t the only thing thrown into the harbor this night. The children of Boston were also catapulted into the water. The reason, to assure the tea leaves didn’t resurface.