icehouse

Isaac Kremer/ September 4, 2023/ / 0 comments

A building used for storing blocks of ice cut from lakes, ponds, and streams in winter; typically built mostly underground with masonry or timber walls lined with wood and with the hollow space filled with sawdust insulation; ice was shipped to southern U.S. from New England by sea pre-1799, then via the Mississippi River from Illinois and Wisconsin beginning in 1799. Photo from Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2023. (Bucher, 1996)

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