The postwar village · Industry and trade · Water and mills
First stone of the ice factory «Η Λέρνη»
7 October 1950 Proven
Early in 1950 Anastasios Vasileiou bought the ruins of the old state warehouses on the beach of Myloi and levelled the ground. On 7 October 1950, after a blessing, he laid the first stone of the ice and cold-storage factory «Η Λέρνη», with modern machines for more than 1,000 blocks a day thanks to the good water of Lerna.
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- Industry and trade, Water and mills
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- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Ναυτεμπορική, 7 October 1950 (licence: "Ἵδρυσις παγοποιείου καὶ ψυγείων")
- A. P. Τσακόπουλος, idem, part 4, Άσπις του Άργους, 10 November 1957, p. 1
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