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Knickerbocker Ice Company was a big supplier in the NY/NJ area and had
different large efforts up and down the Hudson River, usually taking
advantage of fresh water runoff areas, which previously were good fish
spawning grounds, as anadromous fish respond to differences in salinity when
they swim up rivers to spawn.
Icehouse dilemma: In the back of the Brewster Hawkins House in Setauket, NY,
there is a brick pit with a small square shed on it, which I was told was an
icehouse, a small subterranean one. Spring water was bottled nearby and the
tide is very near, where a ship chandelry dock was and boat building was
"reborn" in the 1840's, unfortunately producing the "last slaver", a yacht
named "Wanderer" (1858-1870). The pit could be seen as a privy one might
empty also! Many more modern "cesspools" made from concrete are in use
today, which allow the drainage of wastewater so I imagine, this was a small
empty icehouse in the backyard. What is the smallest icehouse in the ground
anyone has seen? I suppose "refrigerators" a name in use before electricity
in the ads, developed as furniture for apartments and flats, and the modern
"refrigerator" developed on the modern destroyers and battleships.
George Myers
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