Places: MA-Copps Hill Burial Ground

Copps Hill Burial Ground-59' (Boston South) (42.3671662,  -71.0560666)
Copps Hill-59' (Boston South) (42.3672785, -71.0560530)
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Description:
a historic cemetery in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1659, it was originally named "North Burying Ground", and was the city's second cemetery. From


From GNIS:

• Copps Hill Burial Ground
• This feature began as a cemetery in the 1660's. A century later it was used by the British as an emplacement for the cannon that fired on Americans at Bunker Hill. Cotton Mather and Edward Hartt, builder of the USS Constitution, are buried here
• This cemetery overlooks the Charles River.
• U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks.  
• Also called:
• Copp's Hill Burying Ground: Foulke, Patricia and Robert Foulke. Colonial America: A Traveler's Guide. Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 1994.
• Copps Hill Cemetery: MapEasy's Guidemap To Boston. Wainscott, New York: MapEasy, 2000.
• Copps Hill
• Named for William Copp
• 0.6 mi NNE of Boston C.H.; City of Boston.
• Also called:
• Copp's Hill:
• Corspe Hill: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.
• Snows Hill
• Windmill Hill: Foulke, Patricia and Robert Foulke. Colonial America: A Traveler's Guide. Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 1994

Trips:

• October 17, 2018-First half of the Freedom Trail
• October 20, 2018-Finish Freedom Trail

References:

• Freedom Trail information
• Wikipedia - Copps Hill Burial Ground
• Wikipedia - Copps Hill
• Internment.net site - list of burials
• City of Boston
• Atlas Obscura
• Ghosts and Gravestones
• Find a grave
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