Beacon Hill Monument

Beacon Hill Monument

The monument in 2014
42.359004°N 71.063250°W / 42.359004; -71.063250
Location	Beacon Hill
Type	Monument

The Beacon Hill Monument is installed in Boston's Beacon Hill, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.[1][2]

The monument was originally located on the summit of the 138 foot Beacon Hill, until the hill was cut down from 1804 to 1829 to fill in Mill Pond, the area around today's Canal and Causeway Streets.[3] During this process in 1811 the monument was destroyed, albeit with the original plaques preserved. A 1:1 scale replica of the monument was created in 1898 and placed in its present location behind the Massachusetts State House, where the summit of Beacon Hill used to be.

Gallery

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  Beacon Hill in 1811 during its cut down shortly before original monument's demolition
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  Beacon Hill and its monument prior to the cut down
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  Original tablet 1
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  Original tablet 2
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  Original tablet 3
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  Original tablet 4

References

1. "Massachusetts Facts Part Three". Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Archived from the original on March 16, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
2. "Beacon Hill, From the Present Site of the Reservoir Between Hancock & Temple Sts". Massachusetts Historical Society. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
3. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report, Boston, 1981" (PDF). Secretary of State, State of Massachusetts. pp. 2–3, 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2013.

External links

• Media related to Beacon Hill Monument at Wikimedia Commons
• Ashburton Park American Revolutionary War Memorial - Boston, MA at Waymarking