Lake Wenham
About Lake Wenham
Wenham Lake is a 224-acre body of water located in Wenham and Beverly towns, Essex County, Massachusetts.The lake receives water from the water table, a system of streams, the Putnamville Reservoir, and the Ipswich River. In the 19th century, the lake was an important source of ice for export, especially to Britain. Wenham Lake is now a reservoir for the Salem and Beverly Water Supply Board.
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In Sweden, they had a lake which had really good ice. They renamed their lake Lake Wenham, so that they could say they had Lake Wenham ice as well.
from No Such Thing As A Touch Of Worms, 2016-01-15 at 00:11:23 · read transcript
Other times Lake Wenham came up
When people found out he was refrigerating it, they were so outraged that because it meant that his fruit wasn't fresh anymore because he put it in a cold chamber that he had to invite people to a public ceremony in a public square where he burned the fridge and agreed never to refrigerate food again and everyone got food poisoning in France. It was when they used to get ice from lakes, didn't they? One of them was Lake Wenham which was the most famous lake in the world in the 19th century because they got ice there and they took it all the way around the world. Was that the one in Massachusetts?
96: No Such Thing As A Touch Of Worms, 2016-01-15 · listen
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