Road book of Boston and vicinity for bicycles, riders, and drivers . 9sn ui 0009U 30. f3 VI L A QOu T ?)o 3 OLD POWDER HOUSE, SOMERVILLEAll routes to Lynn pass this house. Tlie Powiler Hou>»p. or oM mill, lias few rivals in tlio country ^torical interest. Tlie exact date when it was built is not was originally a gri^t mill, and was i)rol)ably l)uilt by .bilinISIallett, who came into possession of the site in 17034. Inliiswiil,jnarle in 1720, tlie grist mill is left to his two sons. The mill wasundoubtedly built several years previous to 1720, and for sometime after that it co
Road book of Boston and vicinity for bicycles, riders, and drivers . 9sn ui 0009U 30. f3 VI L A QOu T ?)o 3 OLD POWDER HOUSE, SOMERVILLEAll routes to Lynn pass this house. Tlie Powiler Hou>»p. or oM mill, lias few rivals in tlio country ^torical interest. Tlie exact date when it was built is not was originally a gri^t mill, and was i)rol)ably l)uilt by .bilinISIallett, who came into possession of the site in 17034. Inliiswiil,jnarle in 1720, tlie grist mill is left to his two sons. The mill wasundoubtedly built several years previous to 1720, and for sometime after that it continuedto grind the corn for the farmers formany miles around. The powder House commemorates one of the earliest hostilitiesof the revolution. On the morning of Sept. 1, 1774, (ien. (iage sentan expedition to seize the jiowder at the magazine, and 2(10 soldiersembarked at Long wliavf, in ^ton and proceeded u]t Mysticriver, landing at Ten Hills farm, fioin whence they mavchcd to thePowder House. The ;() iialfbarrels of jxnvder wMiich the magazinecontained were speedily t
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