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Hops are cone-shaped, vine-growing green flowers dried and brewed to make beer. In the 1860's, hops became a dominant export as part of the "hop belt" in upstate New York. The community revolved around a day's hard manual labor followed by late-night barn parties with local musicians. The hops business flourished because the railroad transported crops from Schoharie, Cobleskill, and Middleburgh to Albany. When disease and insects decimated hop crops in the early 1900s, the hop-growing culture withered away, Albany breweries left the scene, and the railroad connecting many upstate towns was shut down.
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Middleburgh, New York · United States
