Edmond Ice Company, Edmond Oklahoma
The Edmond Ice Company in Edmond, Oklahoma, was built in 1909. As the nearby university and the Edmond community grew, so did the ice company, expanding its offerings from exclusively ice, to ice and butter, and then ice cream, and ultimately soda as well. As with many other communities across Oklahoma, Edmond began as a small railroad town, a coal and watering stop on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (ATSF) in the 1880s. With the opening of the Unassigned Lands in 1889, the rail stop grew overnight, a trend that would only continue due to the location of the Territorial Normal School within the community in 1891. The Territorial Normal School formally opened in 1893, and though its name has
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