Spring Brook Ice & Fuel Co

About

It was 1918 and The War was over. A new automobile cost 500 dollars, a gallon of milk was 55 cents, and a dollar would fill your gas tank. Robert L. Ervin was a Colby College graduate, coach, and business owner. He did not have to look far to see the sound commercial potential in the Kennebec River which had become the source of frozen goldfor entrepreneurs shipping ice all over the world. Ervin's new business became Spring Brook Ice Company taken from the name of the crystal clear brook on Drummond Avenue that he dammed and harvested every winter with his men. Blocks of ice were cut with heavily toothed saws and carried by conveyor belt into the massive icehouse to be covered with straw and sawdus