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Beacon

City in southeastern New York State, 97 km/60 mi north of New York City, at the foot of Mount Beacon, on the east bank of the Hudson River; population (1990) 13,200. Industries include clothing, fans, rubber products, and aluminium. Mount Beacon is a resort area. The Fishkill Correctional Facility is to the northeast.

Beacon was created in 1913 from the union of Matteawan and Fishkill Landing, two 17th-century villages at the junction of Fishkill Creek and the Hudson.



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To lay down on the rocks, a stick, or any straight thing to guide my hand, exactly in the line of the beacon and the flagstaff.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
She was obliged to pass between the point of the jetty, surmounted by a beacon just lighted, and a rock which jutted out.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
I assume he followed the land and passed through what is at present known as Margate Roads, groping his careful way along the hidden sandbanks, whose every tail and spit has its beacon or buoy nowadays.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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