Beacon Hill, an historic district and one of the oldest neighborhoods in America, welcomed its first resident in the 1620s.
Cynthia Chalmers Bartlett\'s Beacon Hill chronicles the development of this historic area in the early nineteenth to.
Its attraction was and still is its architectural continuity and integrity.
In colonial days, the area served as a strategic look-out point; in the early years of the 1800s it quickly developed into a home for the most prominent and fashionable Bostonians.
Beacon Hill, an historic district and one of the oldest neighborhoods in America, welcomed its first resident in the 1620s