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Greenwich Tea Burning Monument

Greenwich Township, NJ

A monument commemorates the December 1774 Greenwich Tea Party, when local patriots destroyed a shipment of tea in protest against British taxation. The New Jersey action occurred after the more famous Boston Tea Party but remains an important regional Revolutionary-era protest.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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