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...Massachusetts Indian and his times, save here and there a broken relic; his customs and habits are almost forgotten, and his lonely burial-ground and battle-field are generally unvisited and unknown. Even landmarks of the Revolution are by no means so frequent nowadays as formerly. The "Old Powder-House," in North Cambridge, is a most interesting example of those not yet destroyed...
What is known as the "Old Powder-House" stands on a slight eminence known as "Quarry Hill," lying directly in the path of one walking - short cut - from Tufts College to Old Cambridge. First a windmill, then a powder-magazine, it has felt the shock of revolution, and seen almost two centuries with their generations pass away. As we stand near its crumbling walls, our thoughts wander back more than a century ago, to the days of the good Queen Anne and the Georges, when the long arms of its fan turned merrily in the wind, and the early farmers...
...looking upwards, see, through floor-openings, far into the dusky shadows of lofts above, whence - if the wind is high and night approaching - we fancy issue cries and moanings of a distressed maiden, as the wind rushes through the loopholes or rattles loose shingles about the roof. This old tower has, like all its brethren, a legend, which romantic visitors would do well to read...
Such landmarks are gradually disappearing, and each steals from us, as it goes, its fund of interest and association. We trust, the "Old Powder-House" may not meet the common fate, on its windy perch, surrounded by barren acres of stunted pasture, beyond whose limit civilization seems unwilling to trespass; it has preserved an atmosphere of its own; wind and storm have played their pranks with its aged walls for many a year, but it has stood them bravely. Let us hope that its fortunes escape the devastating hand of improvement and survive to see an age when...
...That the people should think me so old and wise...