Thornton Sugar House
A quaint town in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Thornton is home to families who have been maple sugaring for more than one hundred years. Founded in 1763 by Matthew Thornton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thornton is full of New England heritage and culture. A main staple of that culture, maple sugaring lends itself to a way of life for some Granite-Staters.
Sugaring is an exciting, but work intense period that begins in mid-February and lasts for about six weeks; the weather and temperatures have to be just right in order to make the sap run. It takes forty gallons of sap from a sugar maple to make one gallon of maple syrup! It’s a familiar New Hampshire sign when steam is billowing up from the mahogany colored sugar houses. The deep brown and reddish tones of the Thornton sugar houses are suggestive of this stain.
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