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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
brief account illustrated by a cut of the old mill with its sails and the long inclined beam with the wheel at its end, upon the ground. The old gravestone of John Mallet in Zzz. Charlestown cemetery is also shown. We commend a reading of these which are in the Society's library. This ancient structure was probably built very soon after John Mallet's purchase of the site in 1703-4, and is mentioned in his will (1720) which devised it to his two sons. Its walls are two feet thick and built of the blue (slate) ledge stone, probably quarried from the hill close by, over two centuries ago. While used as a mill its surmounting roof was mounted on some kipreserved it and created a beautiful forest park about it, developing a beautiful residential section of the city close to its borders, even now finding the pressure of business at its busy corners. But the central dominant figure is the old wayside mill, the circular stone tower erected for John Mallet two centuries and more ago.