Powder House
1630 - 1930
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.
Marker is on Broadway, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
