818 Ernest Ave / Silsbee, Texas / 409 385 2444
ICE HOUSE MUSEUM
Museum closed:
April 11-13 for inventory
Tour Guide
Welcome
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The museum is in three galleries on two floors. There are large exhibits that are on all three areas interspersed with smaller exhibits.
We were an ice house that manufactured ice in the 1920's-1950's
Begin at the Ice Wagon Exhibit
The 1902 Studebaker wagon represents the Ice Wagon that delivered ice from this ice house to local houses by horse and wagon. The kitchen is a typical SE Texas kitchen from the 1920's with an ice box.
America's history is not in Washington, or Philadelphia. It is in every corner and thoroughfare of this nation.
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The Presidential Papers exhibit exposes how these 8 US Presidents individually influenced local history, through original documents from their administrations as far back as 1824.
PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS, a white glove experience
This large exhibit is spread through all three galleries.
Lincoln
Johnson
Jefferson
Coolidge
This exhibit is an accurate. full-sized replica of a cypress flatboat built in the early 1800's when the pioneers used them to enter the impenetrable Big Thicket in the only way possible--by the rivers
1820 Flatboat Exhibit
Won't you join us in the past?