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 theā¦
A report from the Motor Age magazine published 1908 blocking off automobiles from entering the Park. These logs were used in all of the entrances of the park.