sugar grove

noun

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95

It was late in the afternoon when a woman came hurrying down the slope through the maple-sugar grove.

Uncle Jacob Irons, who lived near Masontown fifteen miles away, had a large sugar grove.

A fine sugar grove is near us and a large lake with fine fish, and soil good, but the Indians are not yet to be trusted.

Now in all the region round about Sugar Grove school-house there was a great dearth of sensation.

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