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is harvested from a small pond at the farm as part of the museum’s Winter Carnival. Debra Cottrell, direc-


tor of education at the museum, says that many Tamworth residents still remember Hook Welch harvesting ice on White Lake and selling it to fish- ermen and camps well into the 1970’s. She says that harvest-


ing natural ice became big business in New Eng-


THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 13, 2011


land in 1805 when Fred- erick Tudor, a Boston merchant, created the first natural ice business, shipping ice harvested on a pond in Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, to the West Indies. Over the next thirty


years Tudor made a for- tune shipping ice around the world to places like Charleston, New Orleans, Cuba, Calcutta, South America, China and Eng- land. British records show that Queen Victoria pur-


chased some ice from Massachusetts in the 1840’s. Nathaniel Jarvis


Wyeth, one of Tudor’s ice harvesting fore- man developed many specialized tools such as plows and saws to improve the harvest- ing of ice. In 1858, the Tudor company expanded their har- vesting operations to Milton, New Hamp- shire, where ice was harvested in the win- ter and stored in huge ice houses to allow for year round distribu- tion. Cottrell said that


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