Editing Johnny Appleseed (section)

==Legacy==
Johnny Appleseed left an estate of over {{convert|1200|acres}} of valuable nurseries to his sister.<ref name="straightdope">{{cite web|url= http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2141/whats-the-story-with-johnny-appleseed|title= The Straight Dope: What's the story with Johnny Appleseed?|date= January 20, 2004|publisher= Straightdope.com|access-date= June 6, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100509201220/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2141/whats-the-story-with-johnny-appleseed|archive-date= May 9, 2010|url-status= live}}</ref> He also owned four plots in [[Allen County, Indiana]], including a nursery in [[Milan Township, Allen County, Indiana|Milan Township]] with 15,000 trees,<ref name="steve" /> and two plots in [[Mount Vernon, Ohio]].<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.knoxhistory.org/index.php/exhibits/people/188-johnny-appleseed|title= JOHNNY APPLESEED - Knox County Historical Society|website= www.knoxhistory.org|access-date= November 19, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034314/http://www.knoxhistory.org/index.php/exhibits/people/188-johnny-appleseed|archive-date= December 1, 2017|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.historicknoxohio.org/index.php/historical-districts/mount-vernon-districts/8-downtown-district/182-johnny-appleseeds-landholdings|title= Z-12: Johnny Appleseed's Landholdings|website= www.historicknoxohio.org|access-date=May 11, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190826122040/http://www.historicknoxohio.org/index.php/historical-districts/mount-vernon-districts/8-downtown-district/182-johnny-appleseeds-landholdings|archive-date= August 26, 2019|url-status= live}}</ref> He bought the southwest quarter ({{Convert|160|acre|ha|disp=semicolon}}) of section&nbsp;26, Mohican Township, [[Ashland County, Ohio]], but did not record the deed and lost the property.<ref name="harpers835">{{cite journal|year= 1871|title= Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero|journal= Harper's New Monthly Magazine|issue= XLIII|page= 835}}</ref>

The financial [[panic of 1837]] took a toll on his estate.<ref name="jao26" /> Trees brought only two or three cents each,<ref name="jao26" /> as opposed to the "fippenny bit" (about six and a quarter cents) that he usually got.<ref name="jao17">"Johnny Appleseed, Orchardist", prepared by the staff of the Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen Couth, November 1952, page 17</ref> Some of his land was sold to pay taxes following his death, and litigation used up much of the rest.<ref name="jao26" />

In 1880, abolitionist author [[Lydia Maria Child]] mythologized Appleseed in a poem:<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOoBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22in+cities,+some+said+the+old+man+was+crazy%22&pg=PA299 |title=School and Home |date=1898 |publisher=Thomas & Patek |language=en |access-date=July 28, 2022 |archive-date=April 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424043611/https://books.google.com/books?id=fOoBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22in+cities,+some+said+the+old+man+was+crazy%22&pg=PA299 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBZEAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22in+cities,+some+said+the+old+man+was+crazy%22&pg=PA279 |title=The Year's Entertainment: A Collection of Recitations, Dialogues, Songs, Exercises, Etc., Arranged as Programs for Special Days and Occasions, Providing for Each Month of the School Year |date=1909 |publisher=F.A. Owen Publishing Company |language=en |access-date=July 28, 2022 |archive-date=April 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424043610/https://books.google.com/books?id=XBZEAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22in+cities,+some+said+the+old+man+was+crazy%22&pg=PA279 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4hMVAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22in+cities,+some+said+the+old+man+was+crazy%22&pg=PA223 |title=History of Morrow County and Ohio: Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... a History of Morrow County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc., Etc |date=1880 |publisher=O.L. Baskin |language=en |access-date=July 28, 2022 |archive-date=April 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424043609/https://books.google.com/books?id=4hMVAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22in+cities,+some+said+the+old+man+was+crazy%22&pg=PA223 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1"/>

{{blockquote|<poem>In cities, some said the old man was crazy
While others said he was only lazy;
But he took no notice of gibes and jeers,
He knew he was working for future years...

And if they inquire whence came such trees
Where not a bough once swayed in the breeze,
The answer still comes, as they travel on,
"These trees were planted by Apple-Seed John."</poem>}}

In 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1928, American song poet [[Vachel Lindsay]] published poems about Johnny Appleseed.<ref name=":1"/> One of these poems was the source text for [[Eunice Lea Kettering]]'s prize-winning choral-orchestral composition ''Johnny Appleseed.''<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |date=February 1, 1943 |title=Award to Miss Kettering with Bornschein in Contest |url=https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/194302TheDiapason.pdf |journal=[[The Diapason]] |volume=34 |issue=3 |page=12 |access-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031193931/https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/194302TheDiapason.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Gail Kubik]] composed a work for bass, chorus and orchestra called ''In Praise of Johnny Appleseed''; this work was also based on the eponymous Vachel Lindsay poem, and entered into the same 1942 National Federation of Music Clubs composition competition as Kettering's work.<ref name=":3" />

In 1933, poets Rosemary Carr Benét and [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] mythologized Appleseed in their children's poetry book ''A Book of Americans.''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Benét |first1=Rosemary |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223927 |title=A book of Americans |last2=Benét |first2=Stephen Vincent |last3=Child |first3=Charles |last4=Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) |first4=Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) |date=1933 |language=English |oclc=223927 |access-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-date=April 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424043612/https://www.worldcat.org/title/223927 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1"/>

In Disney's 1948 film ''[[Melody Time]]'', Appleseed is featured in an animated musical segment titled "[[Johnny Appleseed (film)|The Legend of Johnny Appleseed]]".''<ref name=":1"/>''

The first recorded Johnny Appleseed Festival was held in 1968 in Lisbon, Ohio. The festival takes place the third weekend of September in downtown with food and entertainment taking up just over 2 square blocks. Amusement rides are among the 100+ vendors and attractions. 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. Musicians, demonstrators, and vendors dress in early-19th-century attire and offer food and beverages that would have been available then.<ref>{{cite web|title= Johnny Appleseed Festival|url= http://www.johnnyappleseedfest.com/|publisher=Johnnyappleseedfest.com|access-date= June 6, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070327212425/http://www.johnnyappleseedfest.com/|archive-date= March 27, 2007|url-status= live}}</ref> Similar festivals are held in [[Sheffield, PA]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Johnny Appleseed Festival|url=https://www.johnnyappleseedfest.net/|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Johnny Appleseed Festival|archive-date=February 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215214425/https://www.johnnyappleseedfest.net/|url-status=usurped}}</ref> [[Apple Creek, OH]];<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.waynecountyevents.com/calendar/Johnny_Appleseed_Festival_07242009 |title=Community Calendar for Wayne County - Johnny Appleseed Festival |access-date=February 19, 2022 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180750/http://www.waynecountyevents.com/calendar/Johnny_Appleseed_Festival_07242009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Crystal Lake, IL]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Johnny Appleseed Festival {{!}} Downtown Crystal Lake|url=https://downtowncl.org/annual-events/johnny-appleseed-festival/|access-date=2022-02-19|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219052527/https://downtowncl.org/annual-events/johnny-appleseed-festival/|url-status=live}}</ref> Lisbon, OH;{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} and [[Paradise, CA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://festivalnet.com/9561/Paradise-California/Festivals/Johnny-Appleseed-Days|title=Johnny Appleseed Days 2022, a Festival in Paradise, California|access-date=February 19, 2022|archive-date=February 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215212907/https://festivalnet.com/9561/Paradise-California/Festivals/Johnny-Appleseed-Days|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008, the Fort Wayne Wizards, a minor-league baseball club, changed their name to the [[Fort Wayne TinCaps]]. In their first season with the new name (2009), the Tincaps won their only league championship. The name "Tincaps" refers to the tin hat (or pot) which Johnny Appleseed allegedly wore. The team mascot is named "Johnny".

From 1962 to 1980, a high school athletic league made up of schools from around the [[Mansfield, Ohio]], area used the name the "[[Ohio Northwest Region defunct athletic conferences#Johnny Appleseed Conference|Johnny Appleseed Conference]]".

In 1966, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] issued a five-cent stamp commemorating Johnny Appleseed.<ref>{{cite web|title= Stamp Series |publisher= United States Postal Service |url= http://beyondtheperf.com/stamp-series |access-date= September 2, 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130810160707/http://beyondtheperf.com/stamp-series |archive-date= August 10, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pinterest.com/pin/484840716106209131/ |title= 5 cent Johnny Appleseeed stamp |format= JPEG |type= Image |via= Pinterest |access-date= October 18, 2017 |archive-date= March 8, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210308144357/https://www.pinterest.com/pin/484840716106209131/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

A memorial in [[Spring Grove Cemetery]] in Cincinnati, Ohio, stands on the summit of the grounds in Section 134. A circular garden surrounds a large stone upon which a bronze statue of Chapman stands, face looking skywards, holding an apple-seedling tree in one hand and a book in the other. A bronze cenotaph identifies him as Johnny Appleseed and gives a brief biography and eulogy.

A bronze statue of Chapman sits on a bench on Jefferson Boulevard in Fort Wayne, Indiana, offering a red apple to visitors who sit beside him. Unveiled in 2020, the sculpture was created by [[Gary Tillery]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fort Wayne, Indiana: Sit with Johnny Appleseed |url=https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/76218/ |access-date=June 15, 2024 }}</ref>

March 11 and September 26 are sometimes celebrated as Johnny Appleseed Day. The September date is Appleseed's acknowledged birthdate, but the March date is sometimes preferred because it falls during planting season.

Johnny Appleseed Elementary School is a public school in [[Leominster, Massachusetts]], his birthplace.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Johnny Appleseed Elementary |url=https://ja.leominsterschools.org/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=ja.leominsterschools.org |language=en-US |archive-date=June 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628064910/https://ja.leominsterschools.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mansfield, Ohio]], one of Appleseed's stops in his peregrinations, was home to Johnny Appleseed Middle School until it closed in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Johnny Appleseed Junior High School 314 Cline Avenue Mansfield, Ohio Built: 1940 Demolished: 2004 |url=https://www.oldohioschools.com/richland_county.htm |access-date=July 24, 2024 }}</ref>

In 1984, Jill and Michael Gallina published a biographical [[Musical theatre|musical]], ''Johnny Appleseed''.<ref>{{Cite web|last= HalLeonard.com|title= Johnny Appleseed - A Musical Play About a Great American Pioneer|url= https://www.halleonard.com/product/35030971/johnny-appleseed|access-date= September 23, 2020|website= Hal Leonard Online|archive-date= October 23, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211023152557/https://www.halleonard.com/product/35030971/johnny-appleseed|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author1= Council for Research in Music Education|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MWcJAQAAMAAJ&q=johnny+appleseed+gallina|title= Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education|date= 2001|publisher= Council for Research in Music Education, School of Music, University of Illinois|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= April 24, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230424043612/https://books.google.com/books?id=MWcJAQAAMAAJ&q=johnny+appleseed+gallina|url-status= live}}</ref>

In 2016, John Chapman appeared in [[Tracy Chevalier]]'s historical fiction novel ''At the Edge of the Orchard.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-06 |title=At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier – review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/06/at-the-edge-of-the-orchard-tracy-chevalier-review-stephanie-merritt |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624151950/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/06/at-the-edge-of-the-orchard-tracy-chevalier-review-stephanie-merritt |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=Candida |date=2016-03-31 |title=At the Edge of the Orchard review: Tracy Chevalier's engrossing family drama |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/at-the-edge-of-the-orchard-review-tracy-chevaliers-engrossing-family-drama-20160331-gnv0c8.html |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624151949/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/at-the-edge-of-the-orchard-review-tracy-chevaliers-engrossing-family-drama-20160331-gnv0c8.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pols |first=Mary |date=2016-04-21 |title=Tracy Chevalier's 'At the Edge of the Orchard' and Jane Hamilton's 'The Excellent Lombards' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/books/review/tracy-chevaliers-at-the-edge-of-the-orchard-and-jane-hamiltons-the-excellent-lombards.html |access-date=2022-06-24 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624152211/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/books/review/tracy-chevaliers-at-the-edge-of-the-orchard-and-jane-hamiltons-the-excellent-lombards.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

A large terracotta sculpture of Johnny Appleseed, created by [[Viktor Schreckengost]] (1906–2008), adorns the front of the [[Lakewood High School (Lakewood, Ohio)|Lakewood High School]] Civic Auditorium in [[Lakewood, Ohio]]. Although the local board of education deemed Appleseed too [[Eccentricity (behavior)|"eccentric"]] a figure to grace the front of the building (renaming the sculpture simply "Early Settler"), students, teachers, and parents alike still call the sculpture by its intended name: "Johnny Appleseed".<ref>{{cite web|title= Johnny Appleseed |access-date= January 2, 2008 |url= http://www.lkwdpl.org/history/schools/t.htm |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080202215948/http://lkwdpl.org/history/schools/t.htm |archive-date= February 2, 2008 }}</ref>

[[Apple Inc.|Apple]] uses John and Jane Appleseed as generic name, in a reference to Johnny.

[[Urbana University]] in Urbana, Ohio, maintains one of two Johnny Appleseed museums in the world, which is open to the public. The Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and  Museum hosts a number of artifacts, as well as trees that are descended from the same trees originally planted by Johnny Appleseed.<ref name="Republican 2017">{{cite web | last=Republican | first=Journal | title=Johnny Appleseed tree planted at museum | website=Journal Republican | date=25 October 2017 | url=https://www.journal-republican.com/news/johnny-appleseed-tree-planted-at-museum/article_04cc8492-5e0f-5c5c-9b48-b968de2467aa.html | access-date=1 June 2023}}</ref> They also provide a number of services for research, including a national registry of Johnny Appleseed's relatives. In 2011, the museum was renovated and updated.  The educational center and museum was founded{{by whom|date=January 2021}} on the belief that those who have the opportunity to study the life of Johnny Appleseed will share his appreciation of education, his country, the environment, peace, moral integrity, and [[leadership]].{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}<ref>Compare: {{cite web|url= http://www.nationalapplemuseum.com/johnny.html|title= National Apple Museum|work= nationalapplemuseum.com|access-date= February 11, 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101229010144/http://www.nationalapplemuseum.com/johnny.html|archive-date= December 29, 2010|url-status= live | quote = The Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum, sponsored by the Johnny Appleseed Society and Urbana University, seeks to promote the ideals by which Johnny Appleseed lived and to memorialize the many roles he played in the development of the Northwest Territory.}}</ref>

Supposedly, the only surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed grows on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of [[Nova, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Fruit Trees|url= http://virginiaberryfarm.com/Fruit_berry_plants/fruit_trees.htm|website= Virginia Berry Farm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090228232326/http://virginiaberryfarm.com/Fruit_berry_plants/fruit_trees.htm|archive-date= February 28, 2009}}</ref> Some marketers claim that it is a [[Rambo apple|Rambo]];<ref>{{cite web|title= Kootenai National Forest - Home|url= http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/kootenai/projects/environmental/nepa/qrtly_files/qrtly699.pdf|publisher= Fs.fed.us|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060304204324/https://www.fs.fed.us/r1/kootenai/projects/environmental/nepa/qrtly_files/qrtly699.pdf|archive-date= March 4, 2006|access-date= June 6, 2015}}</ref> some even make the claim that the Rambo was "Johnny Appleseed's favorite variety",<ref>{{cite web|title= Virginia Apple Growers Association|url= http://www.virginiaapples.org/kids/appleseed.html|publisher= Virginiaapples.org|access-date= June 6, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070703090455/http://www.virginiaapples.org/kids/appleseed.html|archive-date= July 3, 2007|url-status= live}}</ref> ignoring the fact that he had religious objections to [[grafting]] and preferred wild apples to all named varieties. It appears that most nurseries are calling the tree the "Johnny Appleseed" variety, rather than a Rambo.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Unlike the mid-summer Rambo, the Johnny Appleseed variety ripens in September and is a baking-applesauce variety similar to an [[Newtown Pippin|Albemarle Pippin]]. Nurseries offer the Johnny Appleseed tree as an immature apple tree for planting, with scions from the Algeo stock grafted on them.<ref name="historictrees">
{{cite web
 |title= Johnny Appleseed Apple Tree
 |url= http://www.historictrees.org/produ_ht/johnappl.htm|work= Historic Trees
 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20041208161257/http://www.historictrees.org/produ_ht/johnappl.htm
 |archive-date= December 8, 2004
}}
</ref>
Orchardists do not appear to be marketing the fruit of this tree.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

{{gallery|width=200px|height=200px|align=center|
File:Newtown pippins (8167963860).jpg|A variety called the "Johnny Appleseed" is similar to these [[Newtown Pippin|Albemarle Pippins]], good for baking and apple sauce.|
File:Sholan Farm, Leominster Ma.jpg|Community owned Sholan Farms—the last working apple orchard in the birthplace of Johnny Appleseed-Leominster, Ma.|
File:Johnny Appleseed Statue.jpg|Statue of Johnny Appleseed welcoming travelers to the Johnny Appleseed Visitor and Information Center on Ma Hwy Rt 2 in Lancaster, Mass., near the birthplace of Johnny Appleseed.
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