![]() Until then he did without ice in the country and bought a weekly supply in the city. He had had one built and filled at the President's House the year before. This was not Jefferson's first ice house. waggon loads of ice to fill it," and cost $70 for the hire of wagons and food and drink for the drivers. Jefferson, monitoring the operation from Washington, recorded it took "62. ![]() ![]() Every available neighborhood wagon was assembled to bring ice from the river to Monticello's newly constructed ice house. Monticello overseer Gabriel Lilly had to wait for freezing temperatures before a combination of enslaved laborers and hired free white waggoners could harvest ice from the Rivanna Riverand transport it to the mountaintop. ![]() In the winter of 1802-1803 the summer's harvest of wheat was safely stored in barrels and barns. To keep ice for the Monticello plantation, Thomas Jefferson designed an ice house, constructed by enslaved craftsmen under the direction of his Irish house joiner James Dinsmore. The Ice House at Monticello with roof restored in 2009 ![]()
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