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Johnny Appleseed was a real person — John Chapman, born September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. (Britannica)

He wasn’t randomly scattering seeds — he ran a nursery business, planting orchards ahead of settlers, then selling the trees. (Today in Conservation)

His trees grew from seed, not grafts, producing small sour apples prized for hard cider — safer than the era’s often-unsafe water. (Uncharted Lancaster)

Historians and National Geographic call him an early conservationist, opposing frontier destruction decades before the term existed. (Ohio Magazine)