BostonMassacre250

08/12/2020

Look at this lovely limited series 3D pin to commemorate the Boston Massacre! Click here to order: https://shop.dar.org/1770-2020-boston-massacre/

03/07/2020

We were honored to host DAR members from across the country in Boston to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Read more about this past weeks events in the DAR President General's recent blog post!

03/06/2020

From the Boston Globe.

Hundreds of people with ties to American Revolution patriots gathered Thursday to honor the five men who died 250 years ago in the pivotal bloodshed that was the Boston Massacre.

03/05/2020

A wonderful dinner for those in Boston to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the event that sparked the Revolutionary War.

03/04/2020

So excited to kick off our commemoration event today!

03/04/2020

Here's the hashtag!

03/02/2020

Boston has changed in the last 250 years - the Old State House, then known as the Town House, is the only structure still standing from the location of the Boston Massacre. So what did that area - where the Revolution began - really look like? Luckily, Paul Revere created a map of the scene that may have been used in the trials of the British soldiers.

Historian, J.L. Bell of Boston 1775 explores this map in a blog post below.

I mentioned this in a comment a few days back, but thought it deserved more space. The Boston Public Library’s Rare Books and Manuscript...

03/01/2020

Thank you to our friends at Revolution250 for including our wreath laying ceremony among your 250 events!

FIRE! Voices of the Boston Massacre Gallery Talk Fri Feb 21st 2:00pm - 3:00pm Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02215, USA Amanda Norton of the Adams Papers will walk visitors through our exhibition of the Boston Massacre, which explores and reinterprets the events of Ma...

02/29/2020

What was Boston like under military occupation in 1770? What were Bostonians reactions to the shooting on King Street - and, what were the British reactions? This, and more, is explored in the Ben Franklin's World podcast episode with author Eric Hinderaker. Listen as historian Liz Covart and Hinderaker discuss the Boston Massacre - the facts and how both sides used the Massacre to further their causes.

Eric Hinderaker, distinguished professor of History at the University of Utah and author of Boston’s Massacre, investigates the Boston Massacre.

02/28/2020

Six years after the Boston Massacre, the Old State House finally saw freedom realized: the Declaration of Independence was first read from its balcony in 1776 to joyous Bostonians. Centuries later, the document is still read every year from the balcony, with patriotic revelers lining the street. Every July 4th, the Boston Tea Party Chapter, NSDAR hands out American flags to those in the crowd. Last year, they handed out 600 flags!

Photos courtesy of the Boston Tea Party chapter, 2019 and 2018.

02/27/2020

One week from today, we will be honoring the victims of the event that sparked the American Revolution.

As the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre nears, several events are being held to remember the fatal violence of March 5, 1770, a milestone on the country’s road to independence.

02/26/2020

Paul Revere lived in the North End, just beyond the Old State House, when the Boston Massacre occurred. In addition to being the engraver of the "Bloody Massacre perpetrated on King Street," Revere was a silversmith, a Son of Liberty, and businessman. In 1895, the Paul Revere Chapter, NSDAR placed a plaque on his house to help bring attention and save it from demolition. The Paul Revere Memorial Association was formed just a few years later and the The Paul Revere House opened to the public in April 1908.

Almost a century later in 2012, the Paul Revere Chapter sponsored a grant from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for their brand new Education & Visitor Center. The new Center offers more exhibits and space for thousands of visitors a year to learn the revolutionary history of Revere.

Photo courtesy of the Paul Revere Chapter, 2019.