Was Johnny Appleseed for real?

CBS News ^ | November 26, 2017

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"Apples originated in China beginning possibly about two to ten million years ago."

Many (if not most) of the juices on the market in the US today that say 100% fruit juice are correct because they contain 80% apple juice most of which is imported from China.

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Viking Sagas : Apples Of Iduna

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After the enviro-wackos succeeded in destroying the US apple industry in the 80 over the fake alar scare, and all the apple farmers began to rip out their trees and simultaneously the wackos forced legal diversion of irrigation water from the Columbia River. the farmers no long not only had no markets, but no water for the trees.

Enter the Chinese ... at about that point, it became cheaper to import Chinese potatoes to Idaho them to ship Idaho potatoes anywhere ...

See how that works?

[Deplorable American1776]

John Chapman was real...he was born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1774.

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One of his apple trees is still standing on the SUNY campus next to Syracuse University in Upstate NY. He was a real guy.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

John Chapman was born in 1774 in Leominster, MA. There is a 'replica' of his cabin on the site now, not far from me. The area from where I live out to about there is still called Fruitlands, and there are still a number of apple orchards in the area. There is a Fruitlands Museum in Harvard (no direct relationship to the former seminary turned laughingstock), on the site of the former Fruitlands commune, founded by Louisa Alcott's father.

The decision not to use animal labor on the farm proved to be the undoing of the commune, combined with the fact that many of the men of the commune spent their days teaching or philosophizing instead of working in the field. Using only their own hands, the Fruitlands residents were incapable of growing a sufficient amount of food to get them through the winter.

More Spahn Ranch than Walden Pond. There is no direct connection between Alcott and the Fruitlands commune and John Chapman. This is the replica of Chapman's cabin, which is actually on what is now a suburban cul-de-sac:

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I’ve read that JA was also aiding settlement, something about moving a few years in advance of the front of the westward expanding frontier, planting apple seeds helped with a legal requirement that settlers had to build a structure and put in a crop as part of improving the land to qualify for homestead rights.

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Replica of John Chapman's cabin ......

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Speaking of replicas, here is a replica of Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge in Saxonburg, Pa.

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That is one heck of an apple tree!