The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of the throwing of tea leaves into the city’s harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant act on Dec. 16 ...

Tea is dumped into the Boston Harbor during the annual Boston Tea Party reenactment on Dec. 16, 2012. Michael Blanchard for Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum By Kristi Palma ...

In a span of three hours, they smashed 340 chests of tea and dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The damage caused, in today's money, was worth more than $1.7 million.

Kristin Harris, the research coordinator at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, emptied tea that had been sent to the museum to be thrown in the Boston Harbor on Dec. 16 for the 250th anniversary.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.

The Boston Tea Party 250 years later, and we’re still fighting for democracy People dump tea in Boston Harbor at the Tea Party Museum during the annual Boston Tea Party reenactment on the 244th ...

BOSTON (AP) — Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence.

BOSTON - Boston celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Boston tea party and the beginning of the American revolution on Saturday. Thousands of people gathered here along the Boston Harbor to ...

FILE-In this Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 photo, visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum throw replicas of historic tea containers into Boston Harbor from aboard a replica of the vessel Beaver, in Boston.