ANSWERS TO SHAUN GOULART’S LOCAL HISTORY TRIVIA WEEK ONE
How did you do? Week one delved into the history of Cape Pond Ice. More than one player “had to call a friend”, Scott Memhard, owner of Cape Pond Ice and City Councilor. He kindly shared supplemental archival material included in this post. Stop here if you prefer to go back to see questions only from 3/10/19 Week One trivia questions
Continue to scroll for the answers.
1)In 1848 a blacksmith named Nathaniel R. Webster started a company by damming a local brook. What did the brook become known as? ANSWER. VETERANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUS
2)What did Webster’s company become known as? ANSWER. CAPE POND ICE
3)Take a picture at the present day location of the company
4)Take a picture of the street named after him with a member in it. ANSWER. WEBSTER STREET
5)What is in place of the brook today? MATTOS FIELD- ABOVE = FRAT CLUB AND BELOW EVENTUALLY LEADS INTO LITTLE RIVER AT GOOD HARBOR BEACH
6)Take a picture at the location of the old dam with a member in front. ANSWER. THE SCHOOL
PART II
7)A competitor to Webster named Francis W. Homans in 1876 created a 32 acre man-made lake. What is the lake known as? ANSWER. FERNWOOD LAKE
8)Submit a screenshot of a map of the lake (Google Maps or Google Earth)
9)What year did the two companies merge? ANSWER. 1908
Courtesy photos below from Scott Memhard, Cape Pond Ice, Cape Ann Museum
Courtesy photo from David Collins-
“My grandfather, Millard Collins, Sr., worked for one of the ice houses for a while. He died in 1918 at age 29 in the Spanish Flu pandemic. At that time he was working for LePages’s and had taken a leave of absence to care for his brother, Jacob, who had contracted the flu first. Jacob died October 17, 1918, and my grandfather died October 28, 1918…”
“I’m enclosing a picture of my grandfather and his horse-drawn ice wagon. You can see the word “ICE” faintly written on the inside back of the wagon. The youngster atop the horse is my father, who was born in July,1912, so I date the picture to about 1913 or so.”
Prior Posts
3/10/19 Week One trivia questions
Good Morning Gloucester 
Hello again, Catherine.
I very much enjoyed your article on the Cape Pond Ice and Fernwood Ice business that was part of the GHS teacher Shaun Goulart’s Gloucester history quiz.
My grandfather, Millard Collins, Sr., worked for one of the ice houses for a while. He died in 1918 at age 29 in the Spanish Flu pandemic. At that time he was working for LePages’s and had taken a leave of absence to care for his brother, Jacob, who had contracted the flu first. Jacob died October 17, 1918, and my grandfather died October 28, 1918.
I’m enclosing a picture of my grandfather and his horse-drawn ice wagon. You can see the word “ICE” faintly written on the inside back of the wagon. The youngster atop the horse is my father, who was born in July,1912, so I date the picture to about 1913 or so. I sent the photo to Cape Pond’s Scott Memhard years ago for his collection.
When we would vacation at Florence Mastine’s family’s Sunset Cabins on Lake Winnipesaukee on Paugus Bay in New Hampshire in July, just about the first thing we would do after arriving would be to go to the ice house near there for a chunk of ice for our “ice box”. I believe that ice house was affiliated with one of the Gloucester ice houses in your article.
And I seem to (vaguely) remember that, living on Stage Fort Avenue off Stage Fort Park back in the 50s, the Barrett summer camps you wrote about earlier, located behind our house, also used the services of an ice delivery man who would come by, I don’t know how often.
Thought you might find it interesting that someone actually remember these things (a little.)
All my best,
David Collins
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you for sharing your precious family photograph and memories. That’s so sad about both brothers. (My grandfather’s brother, too) Did they succumb in Gloucester? In Gloucester MA state guard operated a vast tent clinic at Addison Gilbert.
LikeLike