Building / Landmark · 1659
Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
The North End’s 1659 burying ground — colonial Boston’s free Black community of "New Guinea" lies here with the Mather dynasty, and British cannon fired on Bunker Hill from its crest.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1659, and tied to 2 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenquiet enough to notice details. Best now: the older layer.
1680: Downtown Boston’s oldest building (c.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoPaul Revere House
Connected eventGreat Molasses Flood (1919)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energyquiet enough to notice details
Best nowthe older layer
Best timegolden hour
historicserendipitousNorth End
Rain scoremodest
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencehigh
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densityextreme
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityhigh
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
- Established
- 1659
- Online
- Official site ↗
- Graph connections
- 2
Plan your visit
Get there
In the graph 2 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Historically related
Located in
Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
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Historical context
An unexpected connection
Copp’s Hill Burying Ground is linked, through the graph, to Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) — historical event, 14 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
Also in North EndShares a neighborhood
More landmarksOther landmarks in the graph
From the colonial eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration5 sources across 2 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness80% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
City of Boston Primary / institutional
NPS Primary / institutional
Wikidata Q1131544 Open reference
OpenStreetMap way/29837117 Open reference
U.S. National Park Service (NPS API) Primary / institutional
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density25
2 connections
Record coverage86
metadata completeness
Graph authority34
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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