Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

For five years in the 1990s, Historic Tours of America managed the Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum, a Bicentennial project of the city which named it the official site for the Boston Tea Party. Historic Tours of America, through its subsidiary in Boston, became the owner of the property and immediately began plans for its expansion. The site has been closed since 2001 when lightning struck the bridge to which the facility is attached, causing it to burn to the water line. In the meantime, plans have been drawn, permits have been issued and construction will soon begin on the new Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum site that will include two of the three vessels involved in the 1773 event called, “The single most important event leading up to the Revolution.” The Beaver and the Eleanor will complement a new and expanded gift shop, 18th century tavern and museum, the centerpiece of which will be one of only two known tea crates to survive the first organized rebellion by the colonists of Great Britain.