Historical Marker

Mass - Produced Ice Machines

Columbus · Muscogee County · Erected 1983

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The Story

In 1873 the Columbus Iron Works contracted to build commercial ice machines, turning out some of the world's first mass-produced icemakers and powering a nearby plant among the earliest ice factories anywhere.

About this site

Mass - Produced Ice Machines is a historical marker in Columbus, Muscogee County, erected in 1983. It is one of 92 historical markers documented in Muscogee County, among 248 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.4575, -84.9953 near Columbus. The nearest cataloged historic site is Educational Institutions (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Thomas Greene Bethune, Coca-cola Challenger Space Science Center, and Coca-cola Space Science Center.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 32.4575, -84.9953 · Columbus, Muscogee County

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