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He hitched the scoop behind his family’s horses and oxen to ride around their sugar orchard, gathering buckets full of the barely sweet, transparent liquid one-by-one.

Marion Newman of Zinc, a former mayor, recalled some of the history of the bridge over Sugar Orchard Creek.

The swinging bridge, which spanned Sugar Orchard Creek in the small Boone County community had either collapsed or was torn down recently.

Chickens and goats pause in the road along Sugar Orchard Creek, and neighbors glare warily at unfamiliar visitors.

And here we had a large "sugar orchard" as the Hosiers called it—hard maple trees by the many from which, in the early spring, flowed the sweet sap by the barrels full which we converted into gallons of maple syrup, and into many cakes of maple sugar.