Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . m-bridge in this year and placed upon the summit. This was thefirst windmill erected in the town. The appearance of CoppsHill, which name is from William Copp, an early possessor, isvery different to-day from what it was in 1800. At that timethe hill terminated abruptly on the northwest side in a ruggedcliff almost inaccessible from the water-side. Southerly, theground fell away in an easy descent to the bottom of NorthSquare and the shore of the Mill Pond, while to the eastwarda gradual slope conducted to the North Battery. The beach atthe foo
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . m-bridge in this year and placed upon the summit. This was thefirst windmill erected in the town. The appearance of CoppsHill, which name is from William Copp, an early possessor, isvery different to-day from what it was in 1800. At that timethe hill terminated abruptly on the northwest side in a ruggedcliff almost inaccessible from the water-side. Southerly, theground fell away in an easy descent to the bottom of NorthSquare and the shore of the Mill Pond, while to the eastwarda gradual slope conducted to the North Battery. The beach atthe foot of the headland, opposite Charlestown, was made intoa street with earth taken from the summit of the hill, whichwas where Snow-Hill Street now crosses it. This made LynnStreet, — our Commercial Street extension, — and afforded acontinuous route along the water. Going north, the rising ground at Richmond Street indicatesthe beginning of the ascent. The hill has been known as Wind-mill Hill and as Snow Hill; but our ancestors were never at a. COPPS HILL AND THE VICINITY. 199 loss for names, as appears in the redundancy of their streetnomenclature. The foot of the hill, at the northeasterly side,went in old times by the name of New Guinea, on accountof its being exclusively inhabited byblacks. A representation is here givenof the kind of windmill used by thefirst settlers of Boston. Its architecturediffers entirely from the mills used bythe French in Canada, the old stonemill at Newport, or of the western set-tlements of the French. It is a copyof one set up at West Boston, the de-sign for which may have been broughtfrom the Low Countries. The work erected by the British fromwhich they bombarded the Americans on Bunker Hill andset fire to Charlestown, was on the summit of the eminence,near the southwest corner of the Burial Ground. It was asmall affair, consisting, when it was visited in the following year(1776), of only a few barrels of earth to form parapets. Threetwenty-e
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