Boston
Old South Meeting House
Old South Meeting House, began in 1699 as Puritan split off
from the First Church. The present structure dates from 1729.
Benjamin Franklin was baptized here in 1706. After the Boston
Massacre in 1770, Samuel Adams chaired a meeting here to demand
that Royalist troops leave town. Also, again under the
leadership of Samuel Adams, this was the scene of the protest
meeting that moved here after Faneuil Hall proved too small to
hold the crowd, that erupted into the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
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