Before housing the Cedar Falls Ice House Museum, this round barn held between 6,000 to 8,000 tons of ice.
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The Cedar Falls Ice House Museum allows you to explore the international industry that enabled food to be transported worldwide and is the only museum in the United States that tells the history of ice harvesting in an original ice house. The round structure built in 1921 could hold 16 million pounds of ice. Today it displays tools once used to cut ice from the Cedar River nearby. You can visit the museum to learn more about the ice industry.
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The Great American Rail-Trail promises an all-new American experience. Through 12 states and the District of Columbia, the trail will directly serve nearly 50 million people within 50 miles of the route. Across the nation—and the world—only the limits of imagination will limit its use.
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