Powder House

Powder House is a Massachusetts historical marker in Somerville, Middlesex County, dedicated 1930.

Broadway and College Avenue, Somerville · location approximate

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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.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1677 · A map of New England (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1775 · Thirty-miles round Boston / by M. Armstrong geo. 14th Augt. 1775. (University of Michigan Library)
1775 · Thirty-miles round Boston (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1852 · Boston and vicinity. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1890 · 31. Boston sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

31. Boston sheet, 1890, covering the location of Powder House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — 31. Boston sheet, 1890, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Powder House

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