30 Facts About Johnny Appleseed

John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman, who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and present-day Ontario, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia.

Johnny Appleseed became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.

Johnny Appleseed was a missionary for The New Church and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio.

Johnny Appleseed's birthplace has a granite marker, and the street is called Johnny Appleseed Lane.

Johnny Appleseed was not at all like him; a very ordinary woman, talkative, and free in her frequent, 'says she's' and 'says I's.

The popular image is of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly everywhere he went.

Johnny Appleseed planted his first nursery on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania.

In 1822, the first known use of "John Johnny Appleseed" was written in a letter from a member of the New Church.

Johnny Appleseed was a small, "chunked" man, quick and restless in his motions and conversation; his beard, though not long, was unshaven, and his hair was long and dark, and his eye black and sparkling.

Johnny Appleseed lived the roughest life, and often slept in the woods.

Johnny Appleseed's clothing was mostly old, being generally given to him in exchange for apple-trees.

Johnny Appleseed went bare-footed, and often traveled miles through the snow in that way.

Johnny Appleseed bought many of the parcels of land on which he planted his seeds and ultimately accumulated about twelve hundred acres across three states.

Johnny Appleseed wore pauper's clothing by choice and not out of necessity.

Johnny Appleseed's was a strange eloquence at times, and he was undoubtedly a man of genius.

Johnny Appleseed made several trips back East, both to visit his sister and to replenish his supply of Swedenborgian literature.

Henry Howe visited all the counties in Ohio in the early nineteenth century and collected several stories from the 1830s, when Johnny Appleseed was still alive:.

Johnny Appleseed was a devoted follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, and notwithstanding his apparent poverty, was reputed to be in good circumstances.

Johnny Appleseed followed the occupation of a nurseryman, and has been a regular visitor here upwards of 10 years.

Johnny Appleseed was seen on our streets a day or two previous.

Johnny Appleseed died near Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1846 or 1848, a stranger among strangers, who kindly cared for him.

Johnny Appleseed died the death of the righteous, calmly and peacefully, and with little suffering or pain.

Steven Fortriede, director of the Allen County Public Library and author of the 1978 Johnny Appleseed, believes that another gravesite is the correct site, in Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne.

Johnny Appleseed Park is a Fort Wayne city park that adjoins Archer Park, an Allen County park.

Johnny Appleseed left an estate of over 1,200 acres of valuable nurseries to his sister.

Johnny Appleseed owned four plots in Allen County, Indiana, including a nursery in Milan Township with 15,000 trees, and two plots in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Since 1975 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Johnny Appleseed Festival has been held the third full weekend in September in Johnny Appleseed Park and in Archer Park.

Johnny Appleseed Elementary School is a public school in Leominster, Massachusetts, his birthplace.

Supposedly, the only surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed grows on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of Nova, Ohio.

Statue of Johnny Appleseed welcoming travelers to the Johnny Appleseed Visitor and Information Center on Ma Hwy Rt 2 in Lancaster, Mass.