ICE … In 1917, Ed Frappier and Olin Gleason founded the Bryan Ice and Ice Cream Company (later known as the Dove Ice Cream Company), occupying the former Bryan Steel Grave Vault Company facility at Edgerton Street and the Cincinnati Northern Railroad. The firm sold coal, Dove brand ice cream, and ice that they manufactured or harvested from a pond west of their facility. Fire destroyed the firm’s ice house in 1935; the ice pond was filled, but the company continued to manufacture ice. Dove brand ice cream was sold in northwest Ohio and adjacent Michigan and Indiana counties. Ice cream production ceased in 1960 due to the rise of supermarkets that sold their own store brands of ice cream. This colorized circa 1927 photograph from the Williams County Public Library Huffman Photographic Archives shows ice being harvested and moved by conveyor into the Bryan Ice and Ice Cream Company ice house. Do you have a Williams County historic photo you would like to share? Email: publisher@thevillagereporter.com.
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