How the South Created Ice, Part 2

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Today, we’re unraveling how the ice trade vanished, and spoiler alert: the South was at the epicenter of it all! We’re kicking things off with John Gorrie. This guy was a doctor down in Florida who had this brilliant idea long before the Civil War started. And not just any idea, but one that eventually led to the first plant where ice was made – not harvested from frozen lakes – but actually made, and it all happened in New Orleans.

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