Your Apple-Themed Fall Adventure
just up the road in Bucyrus.
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Relaxing Pace. Authentic Memories
Find your quintessential autumn getaway with an apple-themed adventure to our small town. Whether you find yourself picking fresh apples straight from the orchard, browsing through our quaint markets, sampling mouthwatering local dishes, or exploring artisan workshops–enjoy the relaxing pace and soak up the authentic, homegrown fun.
Create beautiful memories with us this fall, here in Bucyrus.
The Pickwick Place
Take your pick of apple delights!
The Orchard
The Pickwick Place is a relaxed, rustic, and photographic setting to pick apples from early September through late October. Boasting almost 3,000 apple trees, there is no shortage in terms of quantity or in the selection of different apple varieties. You can also purchase an assortment of pre-picked apples directly from The Market.
Events
In addition to their Upick areas, immerse yourself in their Fall Activities area on the weekends and shoot their apple cannon, find your way through the corn maze, pedal around on the tricycle track, and interact with adorable live animals.
The Café
After you’ve worked up your appetite in this beautiful and bucolic setting, stop by The Café and enjoy apple-topped pancakes or BBQ pork sandwiches made with their apple bourbon BBQ sauce.
The Café serves both breakfast and lunch, offering local favorites as well as seasonal specials. For breakfast, choose from egg sandwiches, seasonal pancakes, hash, French Toast, and gourmet doughnuts. At lunchtime, you can enjoy flatbreads, melts & club sandwiches, tacos, and gourmet salads. They also serve a wide variety of gourmet coffees and teas.
The Market
Visit The Market and enjoy a refreshing apple slushie and many other mouth-watering products to take home, including: apple cider, apple doughnuts, apple fritters, applesauce, and a wide variety of apple-flavored condiments, dressings, & sauces.
The Market specializes in locally-raised vegetables and meats, as well as delectable baked goods and jams & jellies. In addition to quality groceries, The Market is always blooming with exquisite dried and fresh flowers grown on-site by the Ohio Flower Girls.
The Stalls
Indulge in some shopping at The Stalls that features works from more than 70 local artists and craftsmen. They sell an impressive and wide variety of quality, handmade goods, including: furniture, candles, decorative items, and quilts. Products are refreshed and curated for the different seasons throughout the year.
Cooper’s Mill and Market
Step back in time and watch as all-natural, Cooper’s Mill apple butter is prepared the old- fashioned way.
Slow-cooked over an open wood fire in a screened-in porch, apple butter is prepared in large, handed-hammered copper kettles crafted by heirloom manufacturer, Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works.
Using Grandma’s special family recipe, Cooper’s delectable apple butter is still produced in small batches that contain no additives or preservatives. Following a traditional German recipe, Cooper’s Mill makes five different apple butter products. Each uses a secret blend of apple varieties and spices, resulting in a final product that is dark, rich, and so delicious.
In their factory area, you can also watch as their jams, jellies & fruit butters, syrups, relishes, and grilling sauces (including Apple Butter BBQ and Apple Bourbon BBQ) are all produced.
Stroll through their quaint Cooper’s Mill & Market retail shop that features not only various apple butters and jellies, but products from other local establishments, too. They also sell their signature, creamy fudge along with specialty food items along with Amish meats & cheeses.
And Cooper’s Mill is more than a Bucyrus retail store; they also have a growing wholesale division, selling Cooper’s Mill products and private-labeled products to businesses all over the country, ranging from farmers markets to restaurants.
Tours of the factory are available by reservation.
Crossroads Candles Factory Store
Visit the spacious Crossroads Candles Factory Store featuring more than 70 scents of premium, clean-burning candles. Among their numerous evocative scents, Crossroads Candles offers an abundance of apple fragrances, as well.
Their apple fragrances include: Fresh Apple, Apple Butter, Hot Apple Pie, Caramel Apples, Apple & Spice, Peach Apple Crisp, Mulled Cider, and Cranberry Cider.
While browsing throughout their spacious store, you can also watch through the large viewing- window as candles are hand-poured in a small-town factory setting. It’s a sight to behold as you witness the vast and vibrant colors filling their factory room, one candle at time.
Each candle is poured by a dedicated team-member in Bucyrus who provides a personal touch to every candle created. Crossroads Candles custom designs all their fragrances and colors. In addition, all of the Crossroads Candles components—from the jars, lids, wicks, to the wax--are proudly made in America. Their products are sold across the United States and also throughout Canada.
The stylish Crossroads Candles Factory Store is truly an evocative sensory experience because guests are encouraged to smell as many candles as they wish. You will find the perfect candle that syncs with your personal memories and preferences because Crossroads Candles offers a distinct scent for every season and celebration.
In addition to their extensive candle collection, they also offer wax melts, reed diffusers, air fresheners, room sprays, scented skin care, framed art, home décor, furniture, jewelry, handbags, beauty products, and gourmet foods.
The Crossroad Candles Factory Store will ultimately inspire your decorating senses and bring your aesthetic vision to life. Their curated collection of chic furnishings and accessories will help you visualize the potential of your own space and help transform your home into what you’ve always envisioned. This shopping experience will truly spark your imagination and inspire your many creative designs.
Their wide selection of products reflects the different styles and moods, enabling you to find just the right gift for that special someone.
Factory tours are available upon request and require advance notice.
Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works
The Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works (BCKW) is a manufacturing world from another era.
Established in 1874, Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works is celebrating its 150 th anniversary this year. Today, it is the last hand-hammered copper kettle shop in the world and continues to make its original product—Apple Butter Kettles.
During a tour of Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works, you will see original patterns that are still in use. Experienced coppersmiths are at work planishing the copper, to both harden and brighten the kettles. Blacksmiths are shaping handles at the old forge. Visitors can even hammer their own coins. New products are always in the making, while heirloom products, memorabilia, and historic photos are all on display.
The building was erected in 1873 to manufacture apple butter kettles. These kettles were in high demand because early settlers considered apple butter a food staple that was easily preserved. However, a poor apple crop arose in 1880, suddenly and drastically reducing the demand for apple butter kettles. That’s when Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works (formerly D. Picking & Co.) expanded and diversified its product line to include candy, caramel corn, and cheese kettles. They even began manufacturing Tympani shells for percussionists which are still in worldwide demand today.
Make this stop a priority during your visit to Bucyrus and watch intricate, handcrafted products take shape by skilled craftsmen in this unique and historic setting.
Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Tours of this vintage, working factory are available by reservation.
Harvey One Room School House
The Harvey One Room School House is a living history museum inviting visitors to immerse themselves in a typical school day in 19th century rural America.
On the American frontier, families were often responsible for providing housing and necessities for teachers if they wanted their children to attend school. Because apples were an abundant crop, students would bring their teachers apples as a form of payment or as a token of appreciation. This practice was first recorded in Scandinavian countries and later adopted as a payment program for teachers in rural America where many local governments couldn’t afford to cover a teacher’s salary.
This charming schoolhouse has been transformed it into a venue for school fieldtrips, tours, and community events. Artifacts and components of this one-room schoolhouse museum include period toys, games, and lunch pails. There is also a library with McGuffey readers & books written in German, a dunce chair and hat, recitation benches, slate blackboards, maps & charts of the late 1800s, photographs, antique shoes, a working piano, and a school bell on top of the building.
In addition to providing a window into the early American school days, the museum also provides insight into the heritage of the early Crawford County settlers. For example, native Sandusky Plains plants have been seeded into a successful prairie just east of the schoolhouse. They are used as an educational extension of the school’s history to help visitors understand both the cultural and geographical features of early Crawford County.
The Harvey School was beautifully restored in 2007, and today hosts special seasonal and community events throughout the year, including a May Day celebration offering Maypole dancing in memory of Pat Reed, the first schoolmarm.
The Harvey One-Room School House property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Harvey School also gladly welcomes group tours with advance notice and reservations.
Mark’s Homemade Ice Cream
Proudly listed on the Ohio Ice Cream Trail.
Explore a wide variety of rotating flavors that are both new creations and seasonal, regularly including: Apple Pie, Mint Chip, Buckeye, Peanut Butter, Butter Pecan, Cookie Monster, Cookies & Cream, Strawberry, Chocolate, Vanilla, and Sugar-Free Vanilla.
Packed full of apple pie filling, pie crust, and cinnamon, Apple Pie Ice Cream is one of their fan-favorites.
Sit outside and enjoy a scoop or two while gazing upon the Liberty Remembers mural, located just next door.
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