In 1899 Geauga County held the distinct honor of being the largest maple producing county in the entire United States, with 8,002,142 pounds of sugar and syrup! Blessed with an abundance of maple forests, our county residents continue, to this day, to produce the sweet liquid gold that is maple syrup.
The original G.C.H.S. sugarhouse
Ground was broken in 2010 to begin the building that would give tribute to this county's amazing maple history and the people who were part of that history. A one-day Amish "frolic" resulted in the raising and construction of the building's shell. Eight years later (2018), after much further fund-raising and hard work, the Maple Museum was completed.
The building consists of 1/3 working sugarhouse where syrup is produced every spring using sap collected from the maple trees that you see to the southeast. The remaining 2/3 of the building illustrate the history of sugaring and its changing methodology down through the early years. The Geauga County Maple Festival, as well as stories of local producers and distributors, are also featured.
