Stillwater Ice Company

Stillwater Ice Company

In the picture L.R. Willie Hoyt and helper. Among the earliest ice dealers in Stamford was John B. Knapp who established the Crystal Lake Ice Company in 1885, south of the Post Road near the Greenwich line. Cut from artificial lakes, the ice was stored in Icehouses which were insulated with sawdust, the layers of ice were separated with hay as an added insulation. From a small beginning in 1880, the Stillwater Ice Company consisted of eleven ice houses, some twenty horses and several wagons, by 1892. The Diamond Ice Company was established before the turn of the century by Seth G. Fessenden and Henry A. Provost on the site of the old woolen mills at Main Street.

Lobozza, Carl

Lobozza Collection -

1895

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1890s

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