
La légende accompagnant la photo nous apprend que…
House in the immidiate foreground is one of the oldest in America. About 1770, this house, with its heavy iron shutters at the windows and heavily guarded closes court, was used by the Paymasters Department of the British army.
Gold coin with which to pay British troops was brought out from England by battleships to Quebec, landed at Lower Town docks and transported by carts from docks, to this site. Ruts worn in stone pavement by the passage of heavily ladened carts are still dicernable