Until it went up in flames in August of 1929, the Bantam Lake Icehouse ( 2 football fields long and holding 112 million pounds of ice) was just one of the places that made Connecticut a center of the lucrative ice-harvesting industry. More
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Walter W. Woodward, Associate Professor of History, The University of Connecticut
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