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Ice Cream Sundae Birthplace Marker — Washington House Museum

Two Rivers, WI

Two Rivers claims that the first ice cream sundae was served here in 1881. A marker and the Washington House Museum preserve the local version of the origin story, which remains disputed by other communities but has become a durable piece of American food folklore.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org

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