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Johnny Appleseea was a real person - John (.hapman, born in Massachusetts in 1774. He set out alone - with a sack of apple seeds left from cider pressing, an axe, a hoe and a Bible, to teach religion to those westward bound and to plant apple trees.
Apples may have originated in Southwest Asia. Carbonized remains of apples have been found by archeologists in prehistoric lake dwellings in Switzerland, going back to the Iron Age. Apples were eaten and preserved by slicing and sun-drying during the Stone Age of Europe.
The two most famous American orchadists - George Washington and Thomas Jefferson -were Virginia apple growers.
The first apple storages in America, back in Colonial days and for many years thereafter, were called common storages or root cellars. They maintained temperatures above freezing, but were cool and moist. Late fall apple varieties or winter varieties could be kept in reasonably good condition all winter long in such storages. t,
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