TEA LEAVES: - Yesterday Image

It is not long, since an eminent Englishman, visiting Boston, asked the committee of the
city government, who attended him, to point out the place where the tea was thrown
overboard. He was taken to a distant wharf, known by its form as the T, and popularly
associated with that event from the similarity of sound. Boston has appropriately marked
many of her historical sites; surely the spot rendered forever memorable by the bold deed
of the Sons of Liberty, on December 16, 1773, ought not longer to remain unmarked. No
stranger, at all familiar with American history, would leave unvisited the scene of an
event at once so unique in its character, and so important in its consequences. The precise
locality is definitely known, and a tablet, suitably inscribed, or an enduring monument of
some kind, should be placed there without further delay.[clxxiii]
LOCATION OF GRIFFIN'S
(NOW LIVERPOOL) WHARF, WHERE THE TEA-SHIPS LAY.
In this diagram the old boundaries are designated by dotted lines. The place where the
tea-ships lay, at the foot of Griffin's wharf, is coincident with the lower end of the large
coal-sheds of Messrs. Chapin & Co., the present owners of the wharf. They have
extended and widened the wharf, and have built a three-story brick block at its head. A
mural tablet might be set in the front of the central building, at a small expense. The
wharf should be rechristened "Tea Party Wharf."
A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.
BY DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
No! never such a draught was poured
Since Hebe served with nectar
The bright Olympians and their Lord,
Her over-kind protector;