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But did you know that there is a real man behind the Johnny Appleseed myth? John Chapman, who was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774, planted apple orchards as he traveled west with the settlers. He owned 1,200 acres of orchards from Pennsylvania to Illinois. Some people say Johnny went barefoot and wore a coffee sack for a shirt and a tin pan as a

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