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Two Boston Tea Party participants buried in Worcesters Hope Cemetery will be honored for their role in the legendary political protest on Thursday afternoon.

The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, in partnership with the City of Worcester and Hope Cemetery, will place commemorative markers at the grave sites of Peter Slater Jr. and Benjamin Tucker Jr. for the first time ever.

The museum is placing a total of 85 commemorative markers at graves of known Boston Tea Party participants buried within some of the states oldest burial grounds leading up to the 246th anniversary of the historic protest on Dec. 16.

The commemorative plaques will mark the final resting places of many of the brave people, including tradesmen and young adults, involved in the single most important event leading up to the American Revolution, the museum said in a statement.

Other upcoming plaque placements will take place in the Old burial Ground in Cambridge, Phipps Street Burial Ground in Charlestown, Green Street Cemetery in Marblehead, Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, and Harmony Grove Cemetery and Broad Street Cemetery in Salem.

The markers include an image inspired by Nathaniel Curriers The Destruction of the Tea at Boston Harbor lithograph created in 1846 a popular depiction of the Boston Tea Party.

In subsequent years, the museum hopes to place additional plaques at graves of participants buried throughout New England and the United States.

A ceremony will take place at Hope Cemetery on Thursday at 2:30 p.m.

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