Old South Meeting House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Old South Meeting House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Five thousand or more colonistsJohn Galvin puts that number as high as 8,000 (Three Men of Boston, New York: Thomas Cromwell, 1976, p. 268). gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time. Read more on Wikipedia
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