Beacon Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Soon after, the king's jack was set up at the Fort, and a pair of colors at Beacon Hill: which gave notice to some thousands of soldiers on Charlestown side that the controversy was now to be ended; and multitudes would have been there, but that there was no need.
ref: 1689, Samuel Prince, [Letter]; republished as “Samuel Prince to Thomas Hinckley”, in MHS Collections, series 4, volume 5, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1861, →OCLC, page 194:
text: Ordered, That the Members of Boston prepare the draft of a Bill for the better securing Beacon-Hill in the Town of Boston.
ref: 1764, Journal of the Honourable House of Representatives, Boston: Green and Russell; republished as Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, volume 41, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1971, →OCLC, page 12:
text: The work on Beacon Hill should be repaired, and, in my opinion, be made strong, as it commands Fort Hill and all the lower works, and would endanger the loss of them, if it should be possessed by the enemy.
ref: 1776, George Washington, [Letter]; republished as “Letters from Washington to Heath”, in MHS Collections, series 5, volume 4, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1878, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Some British officers, soon after Gage's arrival in Boston, walking on Beacon-Hill after sunset, were affrighted by noises in the air (supposed to be the flying of bugs and beetles) which they took to be the sound of bullets, and left the hill with great precipitation
ref: 1782, John Trumbull, M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos, Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, →OCLC, page 38:
text: Beacon-hill is the second of a range of three hills which runs from the head of Hanover street W. to the water. This hill is the highest within the peninsula, and is situated on the western side of the Common. It affords an extensive prospect of the harbour, a considerable distance into the bay, and of the surrounding adjacent country. On the top of this hill was fixed a beacon, whence the hill has its name; the design of it was to alarm the country in case of invasion, by setting fire to a barrel of tar fixed on the top of it.
ref: 1794, Thomas Pemberton, “A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 3, Massachusetts Historical Society, →OCLC, page 244:
text: A magnificent State House is erected in Boston, on the south side of Beacon hill, fronting the mall, the corner stone of which was laid with great formality and parade on the 4th of July, 1795: this superb edifice over-tops the monument on Beacon Hill.
ref: 1798, The Boston Directory, Rhoades and Laughton, →OCLC, page 7:
text: In Boston, the Government Center, designed by Rudolph and a team of associated architects, is a vast fortress-like complex of corduroy concrete sweeping around a huge site at the base of Beacon Hill. The building is overwhelming: its facade is nearly a third of a mile long.
ref: 2007 March 23, Fred A. Bernstein, “A Road Trip Back to the Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2012, Escapes:
glosses: An area of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
examples: text: Winchester approved the suggestion. Beacon Hill passed the enabling legislation, and the town voters ratified it.
ref: 1978 November 2, Joanne Reiss, “Rules and Regulations Governing Town Meeting”, in The Winchester Star, volume 98, number 11, Winchester, MA: Century Publications, →ISSN, special section, page 1:
text: In 1965, when Beacon Hill passed the anti-segregation Racial Imbalance Law and thereby gave the Boston School committee warning of the shape of things to come, Robert Dentler and Alex Rodriguez were still in New York.
ref: 1982, Barry MacDonald et al., Bread and Dreams, Norwich, England: University of East Anglia, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Already in 2009, the Massachusetts Family Institute had run radio ads warning mothers that they may no longer want to let their young daughters use public restrooms because "Beacon Hill is about to make it legal for men to use women's bathrooms."
ref: 2022, Kristen Schilt, Laurel Westbrook, “Bathroom Battlegrounds”, in Jodi O'Brien, editor, The Production of Reality, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 398:
glosses: An area of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The Massachusetts state legislature and government.
glosses: A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.