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Walker Coal and Ice Company Office

Benjamin Walker was a prominent Worcester citizen who held multiple public offices, and most notably co-founded the Walker Ice Company (the only Worcester Ice Company to harvest at Salisbury Pond)

Ice chips were a byproduct of natural ice harvesting. Cutting blocks of ice from the surface of the pond, sawing blocks into smaller blocks, and planing dirt from the surface of ice blocks all created large amounts of ice chips. At the end of the…