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Bunker Hill. It is also the site
where, in 1919, a 2.3-million-
gallon molasses tank exploded,
creating a huge, syrupy tidal
wave that killed 21 people.

2 Clough House
21 Unity St. Map 2 E2. Tel (617) 523-
6676.  Haymarket, Aquarium.
Open Jun–Oct: 11am–5:30pm daily
(call for winter hours).
Ebenezer Clough was a master
mason and one of the Sons of
Liberty who participated in the
Boston Tea Party (see p77). One
of two masons who helped
to build the neighboring Old
North Church (see p73), he was
Slate tombstones of Boston’s early settlers, Copp’s Hill Burying Ground also the head of a syndicate
1 Copp’s Hill who hung Paul Revere’s signal that laid out Unity Street in
1710 and built a series of six
Burying Ground lanterns in the belfry of Old town houses here. The only
North Church (see p73), and building to survive is the one
Entrances at Charter & Hull Sts.
Map 2 D2.  Government Center, Edmund Hartt, builder of the at No. 21 Unity Street, which
North Station. Open 9am–5pm daily. U.S.S. Constitution (see p117). was built in 1712, and was
Increase, Cotton, and Samuel the house in which Ebenezer
Established in 1659, this is Mather, three gener ations of Clough himself lived. In a bad
Boston’s second-oldest ceme- a family of highly influential state of decay for many years,
tery after the one by King’s colonial period Puritan and in danger of demoli tion,
Chapel (see p60). Nicknamed ministers, are also the house was only
“Corpse Hill,” the real name buried here. Hundreds saved when Reverend
of the hill occupied by the of Boston’s Colonial-era P. Kellet, vicar of Christ
cemetery derives from a local black slaves and Church, launched a
man by the name of William freedmen are also fund-raising campaign
Copp. He owned a farm on its buried here, including in 1962. A rather
southeastern slope from 1643, Prince Hall, a free black austere three-story
and much of the cemetery’s man who founded building, it is typical
land was purchased from him. the African Free- of much of Boston’s
His children can be found masonry Order colonial archi tecture.
buried here. Other more famous in Massachusetts. Now fully restored to
people interred here include During the British its former condition,
Robert Newman, the sexton occupation of Boston, the house has finely
the site was used by executed window and
British commanders Decorative column, door lintels, decorated
who had an artillery Copp’s Hill with raised brick
position here. They panels over the first-
would later exploit the floor windows and simple,
prominent hilltop location carved-brick detailing over
during the Revolution, when the door. Now part of the Old
they directed cannon fire from North Church campus, the
here across Boston harbor house illustrates life in the
toward American positions in late colonial era through
Charlestown. King George III’s two businesses. Costumed
troops were said to have used interpreters at the printing
the slate headstones for target office of Edes & Gill demon-
practice, and pockmarks from strate newspaper and
their musket balls are still broadside printing of the 18th
visible on some of them. century, while interpreters at
Copp’s Hill Terrace, directly Captain Jackson’s Historic
across Charter Street, is a prime Chocolate Shop discuss how
Quiet, leafy street, typical of the area observation point for views colonial Americans prepared
around Copp’s Hill over to Charlestown and and consumed chocolate.

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