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Powder House

Somerville, Massachusetts
· 1630 - 1930
Military
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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 I September 1774, it became a magazine of the American Army in 1775-76.
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