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Sandwich Powder House Marker is a historic marker located at 21 Grove St in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1950. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Town Hall Square Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Sandwich Powder House Marker is a historical marker in Sandwich, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.7556, -70.5010 near Sandwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sandwich Old Town Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include House at 19 Grove St, Symonds, Jonathan House, and Sturgis House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This marker at 21 Grove Street in Sandwich commemorates the town's colonial powder house, the small brick or stone magazine where militia gunpowder was stored apart from dwellings for safety. The interpretive marker was placed in 1950 and stands as a contributing feature of a National Register historic district in Sandwich, the oldest town on Cape Cod (settled 1637).
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