Where All That Ice Came From

Much of the ice was cut from frozen lakes and rivers in winter.

Workers sawed the ice into big blocks and stored it in icehouses, packed in sawdust to slow melting.

Stored this way, ice could last well into the summer.

In the 1800s, a Boston businessman named Frederic Tudor became known as the 'Ice King' after shipping ice to faraway places, including the Caribbean and India.

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