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National Apple Week Celebrates Johnny Appleseed History
The week of October 31 to November 5 is National Apple Week, urging Americans to eat more fruit. The feature traces Johnny Appleseed born John Chapman in 1774, his 40 years of orchard planting from Ohio to Indiana and the West, and his legacy of nurseries, seeds, and trees. It notes monuments to him and to historic apple trees such as Baldwin and McIntosh, plus the oldest Northwest apple tree near Vancouver Barracks planted by John McLoughlin’s era associates.
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Johnny Appleseed
Western Newspaper Union
America
William Henry Harrison
John Chapman
Leominster
Mass
Nathaniel Chapman
Minute Men
Springfield
Springfeld
Pittsburgh
Dubnsy
Fara
Tim
Johnny
Poquinac
Wester
Mari
Etta
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Mississippi Valley
Mansfield
Ashland
Salem
Delaware
Ohio Valley
Indiana
Illinois
Mississippi
Missouri
William Worth
Fort Wayne
Ind
Archer
Indiana Horticultural Society
Ohio Horticultural Society
Julony Appleseed
Garden Club
East
Old Northwest
Middle West
Wilmington
Baldwin
Sam'l Thompson
Thompson
Middlesex Canal
Rumford Historical Association
New England
Dunela
Abbotsford
Quebec
McIntosh
Allen McIntosh
Vancouver Barracks
Vancouver
Wash
Northwest
London
England
Hudson's Bay Company
Robert Bruce
John McLoughlin
The
West
Oregon
McLoughlin
Fort Vancouver
Aemilius Simpson
Simpson
Cape Cod Bay
Tolman Sweet