The Edge of Maine by Geoffrey Wolff

Author:Geoffrey Wolff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2005-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Sometime around 1820, William Bradstreet came up the Kennebec in his little 125-ton brig Orion. It was late in the fall, and she was frozen in at Dearborn’s wharf in what was then Pittston. When the river broke up in the spring and the heavy cakes of ice floated about the brig, they were pulled aboard and stowed in the hold, and the Orion sailed for Baltimore with a cargo that cost nothing and sold for $700. This was the first shipment of “Kennebec River Ice,” a name soon to be familiar the world over. It was a business which put millions of dollars into the pockets of Maine farmers, merchants, and shipowners. For years it was Maine’s surest crop. In 1890, when the State House was remodeled, a picture [of an ice harvester] was placed on the stained-glass windows of the old senate chamber.

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