Last Icehouse in Placer Co. -- Roseville California
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sbcamper
N 38° 43.390 W 121° 17.250
10S E 648869 N 4287449
Photos tell a story of what was formerly an occupation that supported the fruit industry that shipped on the Roseville railways.
Waymark Code: WMEA36
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2012
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In those days, are grandmothers told us, people carried blocks of ice home to provide refrigeration: hence, ice boxes, not refrigerators.
Folks might be interested in the Rube Nelson truss bridge that is a WM just east of here. Ice was carted over what is now a pedestrian bridge to the fruit packing sheds.
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