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Malabar Farm naturalist Mark Sommer demonstrates maple sugaring of the 1800s, using a log trough to boil down maple sap into maple sugar.
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This historical reenactment at Malabar Farm State Park demonstrated the setup of an early maple sugar camp. Harvey Devoe’s operation may have been quite similar to this.
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Buckets attached to sugar maples at Malabar Farm State Park demonstrate how sap was collected from trees in the 1800s for production of syrup.
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Harvey Devoe made an excursion to go squirrel hunting in Markley’s Woods. A remnant of the woods still stands today on Roberts Road in Berlin Township, where the old road crosses Isaac’s Run.
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Harvey took a trip to Batemantown to visit relatives, detouring along the way to chase a fox for a couple of hours. His cousins, the “Lewkins,” lived on the west end of the hamlet. This vintage postcard image of Batemantown is from 1909, but the appearance of the place hasn’t changed much over the years. (Submitted image courtesy of the Knox Time Collection.)
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