Athens: Ice Industry, 1914, 1929

File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One

Identifier: Folder 74

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

File contains an agreement from 1914 between John E. Cairns and the Montgomery-Dotter Ice Company for the guaranteed harvesting and purchase of ice cut by John Cairns and stocked in the "Winnie Ice House" at Athens. The agreement goes on to state the conditions each party needed to meet to satisfy the purchase agreement, and the agreement was binding only for the Winter of 1914-1915. Also included is a separate onionskin sheet with a statement made by William Williams in June of 1929 to representatives of the Greene County Historical Society containing his written recollections of the beginning of the ice industry at Athens in 1865 with the construction of an ice house by John Jones south of the mouth of Murderer's Creek.

Dates

Other: Majority of material found in 1914, 1929

Extent

From the Collection: 15 Cubic Feet (Four vertical file cabinets comprising fifteen drawers holding paper documents grouped in folders by appropriate subject or creator, nominally sorted in alphabetical order.)