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Maple syrup can from H. A. Titcomb of Farmington.

Bottle used for H. A. Titcomb Pure Maple Syrup circa 1920. Bottle held 2 pounds and 2 ounces of syrup.

An aluminum maple syrup carafe. Under the spring closed lid is a spout to limit spattering. On the bottom it is stamped "pure aluminum."

Fred Johnson's shingled syrup shed with sled and snowshoes leaning against it in Waterford.

The sap was evaporated in a large pan to make the maple syrup. The evaporation steam is visible at the right end of the building.

Maple sugar is a sweetener prepared from the sap of Maple trees. Maple sugar is what remains after the sap of the sugar maple is boiled for longer than is needed to create maple syrup. The liquid sugar was poured into wooden molds, forming maple sugar candies.

Jeannine Morissette of Lyman is shown collecting sap from a maple tree during the early spring of 1954.

Wood spiles or spouts for tapping sugar maple trees to gather sap for maple syrup and sugar.

View of Olof Elliot Hede tapping a maple tree to get the sap to make maple syrup showing tools needed: drill, ax, bucket, pegs.

To tap a maple tree for sap, one drills a hole in the tree, pounds in the spile and hangs a bucket from the hook. The bucket is covered to keep dirt out.

Warm days and cold nights helped the sap flow. John and Mary Louise McCloy emptied sap into a large bucket as they tended to their syruping chores at sunset in March 1982.

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An old sap house (most likely Titcomb's sap house on Titcomb Hill) betwen what was Debbie Titcomb Mallett's and The Albin Tracy (Bruce) farm.

A new sap house, most likely on Titcomb Farm on Titcomb Hill, just before Donna Tracy Farm in Farmington.

Walter Hinckley and some Good Will boys pause for a photo in front of Maplecroft Sap House at Good Will-Hinckley around 1945. In the spring the youth of Good Will-Hinckley would collect sap and process it into syrup in this building.

Fred Johnson, a Waterford farmer, took his own portrait in front of his syrup camp, carrying two sap buckets on a yoke.

Charles Henry Granger (1812-1893) was an itinerant artist from Saco who at various times was also a poet, linguist, composer, musician, music teacher, sculptor, and draftsman.

Granger took advantage of the growing market for prints in Boston by publishing etchings. This one, Sugaring Off featured a group of colonists holding a sugaring off party in the woods where they celebrated and sampled the maple syrup produced that year.