Places: MA-Old South Meeting House

Old South Meeting House-30' (Boston South) (42.3573197, -71.0581065)

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Description:

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 colonists[2] gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time. From Wikipedia

From GNIS:

• The Old South Meeting House was built in 1729 as a Congregational Church and remained a church until the 1870's, when the congregation moved to a new building in Back Bay. It was the largest building in colonial Boston, and often served as a town meeting site when the gathering was too large for Faneuil Hall. 'Old South's' most famous meeting occurred on December 16, 1773 when Bostonians gathered to discuss the new British tax on tea. After this conference, a group of citizens traveled to the waterfront where they boarded three ships and dumped the cargos of tea into the Boston Harbor
• U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks.U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks.
• Also called:
•  Old South: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks.
• Old South CongregationalChurch: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.
• Old South Meeting-House: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.
• The Old South: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.

Trips:

• October 17, 2018-First half of the Freedom Trail

References:

• Old South Meeting House museum
• Wikipedia
• NPS site
• Freedom Trail information
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