Mount Moriah Cemetery Has a Unique Event for National Ice Cream Day
There’s an ice cream mogul buried at Mount Mariah Historic Cemetery & Arboretum and he’s going to be honored on National Ice Cream Day, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times.
Lewis Dubois Bassett, founder of Bassetts Ice Cream, is one of the more famous people buried at the cemetery, which straddles Yeadon and Philadelphia.
The Friends of Mount Moriah and Bassetts Ice Cream invite the public to the cemetery Sunday, July 18, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Alex Bassett Strange, vice president of Bassett Ice Cream’s distribution, will give a history of Bassetts Ice Cream.
The first 200 in attendance get a free Bassetts Ice Cream Sandwich.
L.D. Bassett was a Quaker school teacher and farmer who began making ice cream in 1861 in his New Jersey backyard.
He opened a store in 1885 at Fifth and Market streets in Philadelphia.
The store relocated to the Reading Terminal Market in 1892 and is still there today, run by the fifth generation of the Bassett family.
It is America’s oldest ice cream company.
Lewis D. Bassett and other family are buried at Section 204, Lot 5, 6201 Kingsessing Ave. in Philadelphia.
Read more at the Daily Times about this unusual National Ice Cream Day event.
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