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Powder House sign

Powder House

This stone windmill built by John Mallet about 1703 was sold to the province for a gun powder magazine in 1747. Rifled by general Gage of the colony's powder on 1 September 1774, it became a magazine of the American army in 1775-76.

 

Massachusetts By Colony Tercentenary Commission

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