EDENTON, N.C. (WITN ... Historians say on October 25th, 1774, rather than hiding in the dark of night as happened with the Boston Tea Party, Penelope Barker and the group of 51 women snubbed ...

North Carolina in October 1774, who decide to refuse to buy from the British because of their high taxes and laws. They burn their tea in what becomes known as, “The Edenton Tea Party.” ...

In October 1774, 51 women in Edenton decided to refuse to buy tea ... giving details of either the Edenton Tea Party or Wilmington Tea Party, describing the tea party, and why they would choose to ...

International Women’s Day has been around for more than a century, but it has picked up steam in recent years, thanks to its preeminent hashtagability. What started as socialist demonstrations ...

A 1775 cartoon satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, a group of American women who ... First Continental Congress in September and October 1774. There, the historian adds, delegates from 12 colonies ...

I love the beauty and history of Edenton. The town had its own tea party protest. It occurred in 1774 when Penelope Barker led 50 leading local ladies in signing a pledge to stop using tea as part ...

organizer of the Edenton Tea Party. Way back on Oct. 23, 1774, 51 women signed their names to a petition resolving not to buy or use British goods. It was one of the first political actions by ...

Edenton was the site of the Edenton Tea Party, the Oct. 25, 1774, gathering of 51 leading women from five northeast North Carolina counties who signed a petition protesting highly taxed British goods.

Ship owner and merchant Joseph Hewes was his name. Did you know that Edenton was the site of "the other tea party?" Penelope Barker helped put Edenton on the map in 1744 when she led a group of ...

The “destruction of the tea” – as the Boston Tea Party was originally called ... by local patriots to empty it into the harbor. In Edenton, North Carolina, the resistance came from ...

In October 1774, 51 women in Edenton decided to refuse ... giving details of either the Edenton Tea Party or Wilmington Tea ...