Ice Cutter From Early 1900s
This week brings us a tool used to harvest ice from the Fox River.
Ice Cutter and wood/leather case. Photo provided from Village of Cary weekly service.
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To harvest ice from the Fox River, Cary residents would use this ice cutter to do so.
The ice was used to keep food cold in homes and businesses and in boxcars shipped to Chicago transporting Cary produce.
This cutter was in use more than 100 years ago.
