At which Massachusetts site did the Boston Tea Party take place in December 1773?

The Boston Tea Party took place at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

That night, colonists opposed to the Tea Act boarded three ships: Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver. They threw 342 chests of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. The protest challenged Parliament's taxation policies and the company's special trading privileges.

The Tea Act did not create a new tax on tea; instead, it allowed the East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies while retaining the existing duty. Many colonists objected to the principle of accepting taxation without colonial representation and feared the arrangement would undercut local merchants.

Britain responded with the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by many colonists. Those measures restricted Massachusetts self-government and helped prompt the First Continental Congress in 1774, linking the protest to the revolutionary movement later commemorated by America250.