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Highland County's maple season
1958
Monterey, Highland County, Virginia
Rudi Riet · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The southernmost commercial maple syrup in the eastern United States comes off these ridges, because the elevation gives the freeze-and-thaw swing the sap needs at a latitude that otherwise would not. The county has fewer people than any east of the Mississippi and doubles its population twice each March when the sugar camps open for the maple festival. Locals call it Little Switzerland without embarrassment.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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