Carl's Ice Cream is a roadside ice cream

Ice cream

Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...

 stand located at 2200 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Fredericksburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia located south of Washington, D.C., and north of Richmond. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,286...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. Since 2005, the stand, with its Art Moderne architectural facade, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

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History

Carl Sponseller founded Carl's Frozen Custard stand in 1947. Since then, the 1940s era Electro Freeze machines have produced the frozen treat. When served, the ice cream is hand scooped, with a signature “twist” added to the top by the disher. Carl's sells only three flavors (vanilla, chocolate and strawberry), but also offers sundaes, shakes, malts, frozen slushes and slush floats. The stand has what can only be called a devoted following, to the point that the line of customers often stretches around the building, even in bad weather. Carl's is closed each year from the Sunday before Thanksgiving until the Friday of Presidents Day Weekend. This is because Sponseller would close the shop each year for hunting season, and the current owners (also Sponseller family members) have continued the tradition.

Ice Cream or Frozen Custard?

The soft-serve ice cream is technically not frozen custard, because it does not contain the minimum level of egg yolks required under Virginia law to advertise it as such.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia
  National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia
  Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places:As of November 25, 2011, there are 2,768 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 95 Virginia counties and 36 of 39 independent cities, including 119...
  
  

Also included in Rick Sebak

Rick Sebak

Richard "Rick" Sebak is an American film director and producer who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.Sebak is the creator of the "scrapbook documentary" genre, many of which he has created for WQED and PBS...

's "An Ice Cream Show" on PBS: http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Cream-Show-Rick-Sebak/dp/B0002TT0LY

External links

• Link to Facebook Group: Carl's Ice Cream (enough said)
• Carl's at the DHR website