HI Once when I was up in Glens Falls we went somewhere and they had a thick walled barn full of ice stored with shavings of wood to keep it from freezing the blocks together. It was a hot summer day out but freezing in the "ice" barn. I remember seeing picture where horse drawn wagons were on the shore of a lake and with big saws they were cutting the ice and dragging the blocks to the shore where the wagon was. My Mother remembers when she was a kid her grandfather would grind up ice from the "Ice House" and they would have Maple sugar melted and poured over it. A big treat in them bygone days Deanna