Copp's Hill is a hill in the historic North End of Boston, Massachusetts. The hill was Algonquian territory before the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and English settlers built a windmill atop the hill in the 1630s. Named for shoemaker William Copp, the hill became the site of the city's second oldest burying ground in 1659. During the American Revolutionary War, the British used the hill to train artillery onto Charlestown during the Battle of Bunker Hill. Copp's Hill is today the highest point in the North End and the third highest in Boston after Beacon Hill and Fort Hill.