Site of Boston Massacre

At this site on March 5, 1770, in front of the Old State House, tensions between the colonists and British soldiers erupted into violence. A circle of cobblestones commemorates the historical milestone.

DID YOU KNOW? A minor dispute between a wigmaker's young apprentice and a British sentry turned into what Samuel Adams later coined the Boston Massacre. When the British relief soliders came to quell the fight, a crowd of angry colonists responded by hurling snowballs, rocks, clubs and insults at the soldiers leading to a bloody finale.