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Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.It is also the location of the Massachusetts State House.The term "Beacon Hill" is used locally as a metonym to refer to the state government or the legislature itself, much like Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill does at the federal level.
Beacon Hill (sometimes stylized Beacon Hill the Series) is a soap opera web series that premiered on March 5, 2014 at Beaconhilltheseries.com. Created by Linda Hill and Jessica Hill and executive produced by Crystal Chappell, season one stars Alicia Minshew and Sarah Brown as ex-lovers caught up in political and family drama in the affluent Boston neighborhood of Beacon Hill.
Beacon Hill is a prime time period drama series which aired on CBS in 1975. Set after World War I in Boston's Beacon Hill area, the show was conceived as an Americanized version of the popular British series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975) and focused on the wealthy Irish-American Lassiter family and their Irish immigrant servants, who reside together on Louisburg Square.
Beacon Hill, Boston, a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts . Metonymy for the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature), which meets there; Beacon Hill, New Jersey, an unincorporated area within Marlboro Township, New Jersey
The Beacon Hill camp, (scheduled ancient monument number 7) [5] built around 1000 BC, was probably inhabited by around 2–3000 people according to calculations from similar camps. It is one of a number of hillforts, which are strung out along the north-facing scarp of the Hampshire Downs , overlooking the Kennet valley to the north.
William Hickling Prescott House, also known as the Headquarters House, is an historic house museum located at 55 Beacon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.It is the left-hand portion of a double townhouse at 54–55 Beacon Street, seen in the photograph.
According to the 2021 census, there were 7,814 people in Beacon Hill. 68.2% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 5.5%, China 2.6%, Italy 2.3% and New Zealand 2.0%. 77.1% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 3.2%, Mandarin 2.4% and Cantonese 1.3%.
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port.