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The Geauga County Maple Festival is a fair celebrating the production of maple syrup. It is the oldest maple festival in the United States, and one of the largest. [1] The fair takes place in Chardon, Ohio in the Chardon Courthouse Square District. Chardon is located in northeast Ohio, about 35 miles east of Cleveland. [2] The festival was ...
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Headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, [3] the company was founded in 1897 as a maker of apple butter. [4] J.M. Smucker currently has three major business units: consumer foods, pet foods, and coffee. [5] Its flagship brand, Smucker's, produces fruit preserves, peanut butter, syrups, frozen crustless sandwiches, and ice cream toppings. [6]
Maple syrup is a syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the sap, which is processed by heating ...
Named after Thomas Jefferson, [4] it is one of twenty-four Jefferson Townships statewide. [5] [6] Jefferson Township was established prior to 1810. [6] In 1833, Jefferson Township contained two water power gristmills, one saw mill, and one horse mill and distillery, one tavern and one tan yard. [7]
Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair, six years before Ohio was granted statehood. Its boundaries were originally quite large, including all of northeastern Ohio east of the Cuyahoga River, but it was divided and redrawn several times before assuming its present-day boundaries in 1833, after the formation of neighboring Carroll County.
House and farm fields south of West Jefferson Location of Jefferson Township in Madison County Coordinates: 39°56′50″N 83°16′51″W / 39.94722°N 83.28083°W / 39.94722; -83
The finished syrup is 66% sugar or more to be classified as a syrup. Birch sap sugar is about 42–54% fructose and 45% glucose, with a small amount of sucrose and trace amounts of galactose. The main sugar in maple syrup is the more complex sucrose, and the chemical contents of maple syrup are also different, leading to a flavor difference. [1]