Naming the West : Senior Story Davisburg

Davisburg Senior Story 1

You could still find an old barn that's there, and there's still an ice house. And I just found out about the ice house just last summer. There's this big old barn, and it's starting to get quite dilapidated, and there's this huge hook way up high, well, higher than this ceiling.
So this fellow was talking to me and I said, "What's that for?" and this fellow said, "Well this was the ice house." And that was where everything was processed right on the dormitory grounds. So they would bring in a cow, or I don't know, maybe a buffalo, it's before my time, and they would hang it off this hook and then process it so there would be food for the kids. I find it so hard to believe that.
So I'm going back another fifty years from what I'm talking about with the current… Anyway. There were two enormous buildings that were dormitories. One was for the girls and one was for the boys. And it was so funny because the windows were painted so that they couldn't peek at each other while they're getting dressed.