Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill is a peak in Town of Beacon Falls, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut and has an elevation of 669 feet. Beacon Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Straitsville, as well as near the village Beacon Falls.

Type: Peak with an elevation of 669 feet
Description: mountain in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America
Also known as: “Bacon Hill”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beacon Falls station and Depot Street Bridge.

Beacon Falls station

Railway station

Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Beacon Falls station is a commuter rail stop on the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad system located in Beacon Falls, Connecticut. With just 14 daily passengers in 2018, the station is one of the least used stations in the entire Metro-North system.

Depot Street Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Depot Street Bridge is a historic bridge in Beacon Falls, Connecticut, carrying Depot Street over the Naugatuck River. Built in 1935 with federal jobs relief funds, it is one of a small number of surviving Parker through truss bridges in the state.

Salem School

School

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Salem School is a historic school building at 124 Meadow Street in Naugatuck, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story brick Renaissance Revival structure, designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1893.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beacon Falls and Naugatuck.

Beacon Falls

Village

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Beacon Falls is a town in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region and is approximately six miles from Waterbury.

Naugatuck

Town

Photo: Bill Hass, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Naugatuck is a consolidated borough and town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town, part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, had a population of 31,519 as of the 2020 census.

Bethany

Photo: Ferrantep2, Public domain.

Bethany is a small town in Connecticut and one of three that compose Amity. It is rapidly growing as a town because it is set back from the rest of the surrounding areas but is in the middle of New Haven and Waterbury, two cities within CT.

Beacon Hill

Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Town of Beacon Falls, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.45732° or 41° 27′ 26″ north

Longitude

-73.039° or 73° 2′ 20″ west

Elevation

669 feet (204 metres)

Open location code

87H8FX46+WC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 359260008

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5282043

Wikidata ID

Q31807603

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Dutch—“Beacon Hill” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Beacon Hill”
Dutch: “Beacon Hill”

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