Episode 49: Charleston's First Ice Age - Charleston Time Machine
Jan 17, 2018•18 min
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Episode description
Long before the advent of modern air conditioning, tenacious investors at the turn of the nineteenth century surmounted great challenges to create a viable business of selling Northern ice to customers in Southern cities. By 1817, Charleston was receiving a continuous annual supply of natural ice that transformed the city’s culture of food and beverages.
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