Description: John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, Memorial in park, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00289
Subjects: Ashland County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Apples
Places: Mansfield (Ohio)
 

Description: Memorial to "Johnny Appleseed" born John Chapman, Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00308
Subjects: Ashland County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Apples
Places: Ashland (Ohio); Ashland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a Johnny Appleseed Memorial in Ashland, Ohio. John Chapman, more widely-known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774. He was well know in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for selling apple tree saplings and encouraging the settlers to build apple orchards. His territory is reported to be Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The date of his death is disputed, but may have been March 11, 1845. He is buried in Indiana. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06476
Subjects: Ashland County (Ohio); Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Apples
Places: Ashland (Ohio); Ashland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a Johnny Appleseed Memorial in Ashland, Ohio. John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774. He was know for selling apple saplings throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. He encouraged the settlers to plant apple orchards. His date of death is disputed, but may have been March 11, 1845. He is buried in Indiana. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06477
Subjects: Ashland County (Ohio); Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Apples
Places: Ashland (Ohio); Ashland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two photographs of the Johnny Appleseed monument near Dexter City in Noble County, Ohio were taken in the 1960s. The monument is constructed of stones donated by people in areas where John Chapman is believed to have planted apple seeds. The photographs measure 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). John Chapman (1774-1836), also known as "Johnny Appleseed," was born in Massachusetts and planted his first apple seeds in western Pennsylvania around 1798. He then began traveling throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania planting apple seeds and helping settlers establish orchards. Chapman was a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist and theologian, and shared his religious views along with his apple seeds. He died in Fort Wayne, Indiana. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3041_3655506_001
Subjects: Plants and Animals; Geography and Natural Resources; Monuments & memorials; Rocks; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845
Places: Dexter City (Ohio); Noble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Johnny Appleseed Monument. Middle Park. Mansfield." The obelisk is surrounded by an iron fence, and the inscription reads: "In memory of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, Pioneer Apple and Nurseryman of Richland County from 1810 to 1830." The monument, located in Middle Park (opposite South Park) on West Park Boulevard, between 4th Street (Route 30) and Park Avenue West (Route 430). It was dedicated November 8, 1900, and presented to the city of Mansfield Martin B. Bushnell, the granson of Johnny's best friend Dr. Bushnell. Chapman (1774 - 1845) not only planted the first apple trees in Richland County, but in 1812 saved Mansfield pioneers from an Indian massacre. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_035_1
Subjects: Memorials--Ohio; Monuments--Ohio; Obelisks; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Chapman, John, 1774-1845
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio);
 

Description: Illustration of Johnny Appleseed planting seeds, from "Stories of Ohio" by William Dean Howells, 1897. John Chapman, more widely-known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774. He was well know in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for selling apple tree saplings and encouraging the settlers to build apple orchards. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03928
Subjects: Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Apples; Agriculture--Ohio
 

Description: Reproduction of an illustration depicting John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, published in "A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County From the Earliest to the Present Date" by H. S. Knapp, 1863. Johnny Appleseed started nurseries in Mansfield, Lucas, Perrysville, and Loudonville in North-Central Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02697
Subjects: Ashland County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Apples
Places: Ashland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Eighteenth-century Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, who began his life as a Lutheran, but as a result of a religious experience in 1743, began to teach ideas that were sometimes contrary to those of the Lutheran Church. Swedenborg claimed that he had direct access to the spiritual world and was able to converse with angels and other spiritual beings. His followers, the Swedenborgians, expanded into Ohio in the first half of the 19th century, eventually founding Urbana College in 1850. Swedenborgians--also known as the Church of the New Jerusalem--believe that a person obtains salvation by believing in Jesus Christ's victory over evil, and teach that the spiritual world is evident within all aspects of the physical world. The most famous Swedenborgian in Ohio was John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04043
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Swedenborgian Church; Religious societies; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845
 

Description: This image shows a blockhouse in Mansfield that stood when Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman, 1704-1784) ran for reinforcements against a pending Indian attack during the War of 1812. Chapman immediately went to Mount Vernon for assistance. Chapman risked his own life to summon aid for his neighbors in Richland County. This willingness to suffer for others was a trait Chapman exhibited throughout his life. John Chapman was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1802, Chapman wandered through Pennsylvania and eventually Ohio, planting apple nurseries. He spent most of his time in Ohio in Richland County near Mansfield. He was known as being somewhat of an eccentric. Chapman opposed violence of all sorts towards both humans and animals. He was a strict vegetarian. He also primarily wore discarded clothing or would barter some apple saplings for used clothes. Many of Ohio's first orchards began with saplings from Chapman's nurseries. His trees fed many of Ohio's early white settlers as they struggled to establish farms and homes on the frontier. Johnny Appleseed eventually owned more than 1,200 acres of land across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He died near Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the early 1840s. This image of the Mansfield blockhouse was among the photographs produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06391
Subjects: Chapman, John, 1704-1784; Mansfield (Ohio); Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Mansfield (Ohio); United States. Work Progress Administration; War of 1812
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a blockhouse in Mansfield that stood when Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman, 1704-1784) ran for reinforcements against a pending Indian attack during the War of 1812. Chapman immediately went to Mount Vernon for assistance. At the time of Appleseed's run, the square in Mansfield was the site of two blockhouses erected during the War of 1812. One blockhouse, constructed of round logs by a Captain Schaeffer of Fairfield County, stood at the intersection of Main Street and Park Avenue West. (The description fits this image.) Chapman risked his own life to summon aid for his neighbors in Richland County. This willingness to suffer for others was a trait Chapman exhibited throughout his life. John Chapman was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Chapman is better known as Johnny Appleseed. Beginning in 1802, Chapman wandered through Pennsylvania and eventually Ohio, planting apple nurseries. He spent most of his time in Ohio in Richland County near Mansfield. Chapman was known as being somewhat of an eccentric. He opposed violence of all sorts towards both humans and animals. He was a strict vegetarian. He also primarily wore discarded clothing or would barter some apple saplings for used clothes. Many of Ohio's first orchards began with saplings from Chapman's nurseries. His trees fed many of Ohio's early white settlers as they struggled to establish farms and homes on the frontier. Johnny Appleseed eventually owned more than 1,200 acres of land across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He died near Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the early 1840s. This image of the Mansfield blockhouse was among the photographs produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06392
Subjects: Chapman, John, 1704-1784; Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Mansfield (Ohio); War of 1812; Mansfield (Ohio); United States. Work Progress Administration
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of an illustration from Harper's Monthly Magazine depicting John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02669
Subjects: Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture