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The Old South Meetinghouse was the largest building in Colonial Boston and a natural gathering spot for the colonists as they grew increasingly weary of English rule. In fact, a group of colonists got so stirred up about the tea tax here on December 16, 1773, that they left the Old South Meetinghouse for the harbor, where they dumped a boatload of tea into the sea--we know this historic event as the Boston Tea Party.
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