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Raymond Robicheau talks about the ice houses in Westport:"I remember Jimmy's pond down there and they would cut ice the end of January and it would be 2 feet thick down there. Great big chunks - 2x2x4x4,big ice cakes and they would put it in the ice houses for the fish for the next summer, in sawdust.... It would keep. They'd break that open and shovel the sawdust off it in the middle of August and it'd still be right there all caked together. Every one of the fish firms had their own ice house. In fact, we (R.E. Robicheau Ltd.) still have one. We use it for a lumber shop now, down to the store. That was used for an ice house for the E.C. Bowers Company years ago.
Taken from an interview conducted by Brenda Teed in 2000 for Passages.
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Items from local scrapbooks held by Island Historical Society:During the past three weeks many tons of ice have been cut and hauled for Hains Bros., M.G. Crocker and others.
Central Grove, 1901
G. Delaney and others were busily engaged for the last few days in cutting and hauling ice to Tiverton.
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