Posted by Turkey Hill Team on September 8th, 2010
This is the first in a multi-part series of entries about the ongoing construction of the Turkey Hill Experience – a 26,000 square foot attraction that will open in the spring of 2011. The Turkey Hill Experience, based in Columbia, right here in Lancaster County, will pay homage to Turkey Hill’s history while highlighting its ice cream and iced tea-making processes. The Experience will include interactive exhibits (including a chance to make your own ice cream flavor), a café, a gift shop and lots of other fun things for the entire family!
We mentioned in our first entry about the Turkey Hill Experience that it’s being built in an historic silk mill that will be renovated after being empty for more than 25 years. The use of an existing historic building as the location for the Experience is good for Turkey Hill because we’re strong advocates of preserving the history and culture of Lancaster County and if not for the Turkey Hill Experience, this historic location might have gone unused for many more decades or, worse yet, been torn down altogether.
The mill was originally built in 1899 and was known as the Ashley & Bailey Silk Mill. The Ashley & Bailey company, which also built a silk mill nearby Marietta in 1897 and owned several other mills around the country, used the mill to support the growing demand for silk products in the 19th and 20th century. The mill used raw silk imported from China and Japan and weaved it into thread and cloth to create all sorts of silk-based goods. At its peak, the mill employed several hundred members of the local community.
Over the years, the mill would change hands several times (silk giant Schwarzenbach-Huber purchased the plant in 1913), before being abandoned not long after the Tidy Products company stopped using it as a sewing factory in the late 1970s. The decades that followed took its toll on the silk mill but, rest assured, our construction team is prepared to restore it to its original integrity — and then some!
A RECENT PHOTO OF THE ASHLEY & BAILEY SILK MILL(Source: Lancaster Building Conservancy)
AN ARTIST’S RENDERING OF THE ASHLEY & BAILEY SILK MILL BEFORE THE TURKEY HILL EXPERIENCE RENOVATIONS (Source: Lancaster Building Conservancy)
AN ARTIST’S RENDERING OF THE FUTURE TURKEY HILL EXPERIENCE
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on September 3rd, 2010
September is here, which means fall and winter are just around the corner. To help everyone relax on those cool nights, we’re giving away the Me Bath Ice Cream Set as this month’s prize. The set includes 12 two-ounce scoops of “ice cream” which can
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 31st, 2010
Whoever said you can’t eat ice cream all day long? Our love for ice cream always pushes us to try to incorporate the sweet taste into each of our daily meals. And chef Heston Blumenthal has made it easier for ice cream fans to do
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 26th, 2010
Banana splits have been on our mind all day, since yesterday was National Banana Split Day. The celebration may have been marked on yesterday’s calendar, but it has reminded us that maybe every day should be celebrated with a perfect banana split.
This treat
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 23rd, 2010
The following was originally posted on the Ice Cream Journal in July 2007. It was in ingenious invention three years ago and it’s an ingenious invention today, so we’re giving it another look!
You can get soda and coffee from a vending machine, chips and
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 20th, 2010
It’s said that the higher-than-average incidence of gloomy weather in Seattle, Washington creates a higher-than-average incidence of gloomy residents. Sure, you can blame it on the rain, but you can also blame it on the fact that ice cream trucks are illegal in Seattle.
That’s right.
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 18th, 2010
In July, Sarah from Parkville, MD wrote about her Pop Pop and the special bowl he used to eat his ice cream from. Her story is the inspiration behind this month’s prize — the Wild Eye Designs Metal Ice Cream Container.The container comes with its own
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 12th, 2010
In Tuesday’s post about competitive eater Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti and his world record of 1.75 gallons of ice cream eaten in eight minutes, loyal Ice Cream Journal reader Karen requested (with a comment) a photo of what 1.75 gallons of ice cream looks like.
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 10th, 2010
ALEX M. OF SCRANTON, PA ASKS: Ernie, I’m going to be competing in an ice cream eating contest in a few weeks and since you eat ice cream for a living, I thought you might be able to give me some tips to help me
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Posted by Turkey Hill Team on August 6th, 2010
Today is National Root Beer Float Day, which is the perfect excuse to stop by the grocery store tonight to buy some ice cream and root beer and whip up a bubbly treat tonight. (Don’t forget the straws!)
Of course, since it’s root beer float day,
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If you’ve got a technical question about the ice cream making process or some other inquiry about the nuances of America’s favorite treat, chances are Ernie has the answer. He might not be able to answer all questions, but he’ll try his best and some may be featured on the Ice Cream Journal.
