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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.
The historical site is located on Beacon Hill, a neighborhood just north of Boston Common.The site was designated in 1980 to "preserve and commemorate original buildings that housed the nineteenth-century free African-American community on Beacon Hill."
An extinct volcano, in Whitwick, 4 miles (6 km) to the west, was responsible for the fine-grained igneous rocks that the hill consists of. Beacon Hill was the site of a Bronze Age hill fort. Today a toposcope indicates landmarks which can be seen from the summit. These include Lincoln Cathedral and the hills of the Peak District.
The building is situated on 6.7 acres (2.7 ha) of land on top of Beacon Hill in Boston, opposite the Boston Common on Beacon Street.It was built on land once owned by John Hancock, Massachusetts's first elected governor. [6]
Beacon Hill is a hill and neighborhood in southeastern Seattle, Washington.It is roughly bounded on the west by Interstate 5, on the north by Interstate 90, on the east by Rainier Avenue South, Cheasty Boulevard South, and Martin Luther King Junior Way South, and on the south by the Seattle city boundary.
After serving most of the nineteenth century as a church, it then served as a synagogue until 1972 when it was purchased for the Museum of African American History. It is located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston , Massachusetts , adjacent to the historically Black American Abiel Smith School , now also part of the museum.
Beacon Hill, Warnford is a 46.4-hectare (115-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Warnford in Hampshire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, [ 1 ] and an area of 40.1 hectares (99 acres) is a national nature reserve . [ 3 ]
Beacon Hill is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council.