TCI Ice Plant

This ice plant was part of the manufacturing and shipping complex that TCI established in Chickasaw, Mobile County, in 1917. Shown in the photo is the turbine system for the ammonia-based compressor used in making ice.

Industrial machinery with a large flywheel, gauges, and piping inside a brick-walled ice plant.
Courtesy of the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, University of Alabama Libraries
Industrial machinery with a large flywheel, gauges, and piping inside a brick-walled ice plant.