[AT] Putting the tractor to use - Ice Houses

[David Bruce]

There is a site here that was once an ice pond.  That was long before my 
day but I do remember my grandpa using the area after the dam slipped 
over to grow watermelons and muskmelons.  Just a bit behind my house and 
on my uncle's part of the old farm.  Deer and turkey make goring things 
there these days impossible.

David
NW NC


On 6/16/2014 12:50 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> My memory is foggy on this but I want to say I can remember
> when the Milk truck in our area still used blocks of ice to keep the
> milk cold.  I was born in 1950 and I'm sure it wasn't much later
> when refrigerated trucks took over so maybe not.  Maybe I'm
> remembering people talking about it.
>
> I surely remember
> when we had an ice house in town with blocks of ice.  It had a
> crusher mounted on the outside of the house for folks that needed
> to crush their ice or you could buy blocks.  Daddy used to buy blocks
> of ice and put under the salt bench in the smoke house when we
> were salting and smoking pork in the winter.  The bench was used to
> salt down the hams, shoulders and sides of bacon.  It was built just
> the right height for a block of ice to slide under it.
>
> Charlie