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Salada Tea & the
Boston Tea Party Reenactment
Old South Meeting House
Boston, MA
Old South Meeting House celebrated the 237th Anniversary Boston Tea Party Annual Reenactment on December 12.
By December 16, 1773, all the fuss about tea in Boston had come to a boil. Three ships loaded with tea sat anchored in Boston harbor. The Patriots were determined to prevent the tea on these ships from being landed on American soil, because if it were, a tax would be due upon it.
Next year, join in on the party! Come take on the role of Patriot or Loyalist in this spirited reenactment of the Boston Tea Party. Hear from the likes of John Hancock, the richest man in Boston; Francis Rotch, owner of the ship Dartmouth; famed orator and doctor Joseph Warren; and notorious rabble rouser Samuel Adams. Then, witness firsthand the event that John Adams said “is so bold, so daring, so intrepid and so inflexible… that I can’t but consider it an epoch in history.”
On a cold morning in 1773, 5,000 townspeople gathered at Boston's Old South Meeting House to protest the tea tax and prevent the delivery of three shiploads of tea anchored in Boston Harbor. After attempting a peaceful resolution with the ships, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty led the Colonists down to the harbor to dispose of the tea, now known as the Boston Tea Party.
Old South Meeting House
Boston, MA
An American tradition was born: Salada Tea Tea was eventually welcomed back into American homes. And nearly a century and a half after the Boston Tea Party, Peter C. Larkin, a world traveler and Canadian food merchant, recognized America's affinity for tea and founded one of America's oldest tea companies still in existence, Salada Tea.
In 1917, Larkin established the U.S. headquarters for Salada Tea on Stuart Street in Boston's Back Bay. Outfitted with two 12-foot tall, bronze doors depicting the early history of the tea trade (still standing today), the Back Bay headquarters would be instrumental in Salada's mission to bring high quality tea to the Northeast. "No matter where you buy Salada," a 1920s brochure stated, "you will always find it, grade for grade, of the same high standard of quality."
Salada's headquarters have moved outside of Boston, but the company celebrates their Boston roots to this day. Salada continues to pride itself on the tea's time-tested quality and expand thier product line across the country. The black tea is available only in New England but can also be purchased online, while tea drinkers across the country can readily find the green tea varieties.
Did you know....
Salada Headquarters used to be in Boston Massachusets? The space is now occupied by Grill 23 Restaurant. The corner of Berkeley and Stuart Streets used to be the home and headquarters of the Salada Tea Company.
The bronze doors adorn the entrance still, and are a hand-carved depiction of the history of tea trade.
For more information on the Old South Meeting House Click Here.
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