Where the Winner Ford Agency is now, up to the foot of the hill where the Marlton-Medford railroad tracks cross the Berlin Road at Freeman Station, there was Abbott¹s Pond.

In the winter, a horse pulling a spike scored the thick clear ice on the pond. Workmen with heavy saws would cut up the ice into ten cake sections. Howard Griffeth remembers making five cents an hour, 15 cents in the afternoon, skating to the sawed sections of ice and riding them to the Berlin Road by pushing them through open water with spiked poles jammed into the banks.

Alongside the Berlin Road there was a rambling big ice house that was owned by the American Ice Company. Conveyor belts raised the cakes of ice up into the Ice House where they were stored, packed in sawdust and wood chips, until the boxcars at the nearby Freeman Station would be available. The Dumphey family here in Haddonfield was a participant in this ice business. Its ice wagons covered the town and the sons, Jarvis, Roy, and Cliff gave door to door delivery to all Haddonfield.

A small ice business existed in Haddonfield at the turn of the century. The ice was cut into cakes off Evans Pond. It was stored in a round brick small building on East Kings Highway next to the J. Morris Robert¹s mansion, number 344.

The building was eight feet down in the ground. Sawdust and wood chips packed around the cakes of ice preserved them for the warm weather. The Ellis Meat Market and Sam Hunt Meat Store could then keep the ice bins cold in the meat wagons and insure fresh meat on the routes around town.

Howard Griffeth¹s good memory was the source of this item from our days of yore.