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Thread: MW 2971: Old South Church, Boston
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Dogwalker
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I don't suppose it matters to any but the most pedantic, but the background information about the Boston Tea Party in the MW of Old South Church is slightly misleading.
It's true that the Tea Party participants left from Old South Church, but not THIS Old South Church. You see, this is New Old South Church, built more than a hundred years after the revolution.
In the 1770s, the parish met in what's called Old South Meeting House at Washington and Milk Street in downtown Boston.
They moved to the current Back Bay location after the fire of 1872 and the Back Bay landfill changed the residential patterns of the city.
Not that any of this matters to the review of the worship!
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Bibaculus
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If we were not numbered amongst the most pedantic we wouldn't be on Ecclesiantics.
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joan vines
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