Posted on 05/02/2017 7:36:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The historic meeting house where colonists gathered to begin challenging British rule in the years leading to the American Revolution and launched the Boston Tea Party has been damaged and closed to the public.
Officials say the Old South Meeting House sustained accidental damage from nearby construction.
The meeting house is one of the country’s most important colonial-era sites. It may be best known as the location where the Boston Tea Party began in 1773 when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor in defiance of the Tea Act, seen by many as a form of taxation without representation. …
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Sad. I visited it once back in 1977 on my one and only trip east of the Mississippi River.
we should clean it up and have secret meetings there.
Destroy history.
Moolsime tactic.
Communist tactic as well of re-writing history.
Boston is a RAT city. Can’t the RAT authorities even safeguard such an important, historical site? The question answers itself.
no worries. It’s being repaired and will be open by the end of the week.
‘Seen by many as taxation without representation’. Vs actually ‘ taxation without representation’. Amazing how they continue to try to modify history.
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