We invite you to visit... In 1880 the site that was to become Glenwood City was a tranquil glen (valley) in the midst of huge forests. By 1885-1890 with the coming of the railroad and the lumber mills, Glenwood was the major trading center of the area with a population of 2000.
English walnut trees can be tapped successfully, especially when subjected to a freezing winter and spring. Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) The paper birch has a lower sugar content than sugar maple (less than 1%), but is the sweetest of the birch trees.
Sap Chemistry When a sugar maple tree is tapped, sap flows out of the hole. A single tap will produce about 10 gallons of sap per per and yield approximately one quart of finished syrup. The sap contains sucrose and trace amount of oligosaccharides including raffinose (Willits, 1958).