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National Apple Week Celebrates Favorite Fruit and Johnny Appleseed
The piece notes National Apple Week October 31 to November 5 and extols apples as a year round staple. It profiles Johnny Appleseed John Chapman, his nurseries in Ohio, and his seed distribution to pioneers. It mentions monuments to apple trees and historic specimens like Baldwin McIntosh and McIntosh trees with lore about their discovery and longevity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Appleseed
Western Newspaper Union
America
William Henry Harrison
John Chapman
Leominster
Mass
Nathaniel Chapman
Minute Men
Springfield
Connecticut River
South Hadley Falls
Johnny
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Valley of the Potomac
Pennsylvania
Ohio River
Steubenville
Mansfield
Ashland
Salem
Delaware
Ohio Valley
Indiana
Illinois
Mississippi
Missouri
William Worth
Fort Wayne
Ind
Archer
Indiana Horticultural Society
Ohio Horticultural Society
Garden Club
East
Old Northwest
Middle West
Wilmington
Baldwin
Sam’l Thompson
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
Pacific Coast
Cops Foe Bay
Massachusetts
John Burroughs
Ben Bolt