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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Beacon Hill came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Beacon Hill in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Beacon Hill. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Beacon Hill data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads

Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West

Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

In addition:

Beacon Hill is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Beacon Hill. See our Misc Page for Beacon Hill for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/