Photographs: Tea burning riot remembered in Lexington

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The Boston Harbor wasn’t the one website of tea-related riot within the colonial period, and the residents of Lexington have as soon as once more honored their forefathers with a reenactment.

The townspeople of Lexington on Dec. 13, 1773, “three days before the Boston Tea Party,” the Lexington Historic Society reminds us, the city assembly concluded “with a resolution to stop purchasing or drinking imported British tea.”

“The crowd spilled out onto the common behind the meeting house and made a bonfire, throwing the entire town’s supply of tea into it,” the Society’s entry on the reenactment states.

On Saturday, the present Lexington townsfolk wearing period-appropriate apparel and reenacted the second.

The William Diamond Drum and Fife Corp play throughout the 250th re-enactment of the burning of the tea on Dec. 14. (Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)
People throw tea onto a bonfire during the 250th re-enactment of the burning of the tea on Dec. 14. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald

Folks throw tea onto a bonfire throughout the 250th re-enactment of the burning of the tea on Dec. 14. (Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

The William Diamond Drum and Fife Corp play during the 250th re-enactment of the burning of the tea on Dec. 14. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald

The William Diamond Drum and Fife Corp play throughout the 250th re-enactment of the burning of the tea on Dec. 14. (Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

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