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Information Junky
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: an island, upper left coast, USA
Posts: 73,167
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They had ice cellars & ice houses for storage. (or so Laura Ingels-Wilder says) If you were close to a mountain you would stock up. Otherwise it was shipped in.
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/ice/iceimport.htm
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Everyone you meet knows something you don't. - - - and a whole bunch of crap that is wrong.
Disclaimer: the above was 2¢ worth.
More information is available as my professional opinion, which is provided for an exorbitant fee. 
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