This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates ... a group of "Mohawks" tossed 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. "This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John Adams, "is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid ...

This hands-on museum offers an entertaining look at one of Boston's pivotal moments ... which is located on Griffin's Wharf (close to where the actual Tea Party occurred on Dec. 16, 1773) include ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.

Visitors can still feel the weight of history in the air, standing close ... of Boston's pivotal role in the American ...