Location
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. It is part of the Northern Beaches region. (Wikipedia)
History
Beacon Hill was given the title when the Department of Lands built a trigonometric beacon there in 1881.
Little is known of local aboriginal culture in the Beacon Hill area but other local areas towards the sea have a rich and diverse aboriginal background. There are some aboriginal carvings in rocks to the north of Red Hill.
Daniel Egan, a member of the NSW Parliament, purchased two 40-acre parcels of land on 5 October 1857.
Most of the houses in the suburb were built in the boom days after World War II, in the 1950s and 1960s.
Beacon Hill Post Office opened on 1 August 1949 and closed in 1986. Beacon Hill High School was established in 1964 and closed in 2002. (Wikipedia)
Places of Interest
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