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626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.
George Washington’s Mount Vernon ice house stored winter-cut Potomac ice in a hillside dry well for use in warmer months. The official description and 1798 estate inventory give distinct details of its form.
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Tidewater Virginia smokehouses were separate buildings for curing and storing meat. Documentary references attest to purpose-built examples by the early eighteenth century; a HABS photograph records one interior at Sherwood Forest.