Ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun Ohio - kuma ƙaunatacciyar ƙauna - Legends shine Johnny Appleseed, mai aikin kirki da mai haɓaka wanda ya tsayar da masana'antun apple a Arewacin Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, da kuma cikin Indiana.
Johnny Appleseed wani mutum ne mai suna Yahaya Chapman, kuma ainihin labarin shi dan kadan ne wanda ba abin mamaki bane da labari.
Early Life
John Chapman an haife shi a 1774, a Leominster Massachusetts, ɗan wani manomi da kuma juyin juya halin soja Nathaniel Chapman.
Mahaifiyarsa ta mutu a yayin yakin cutar tarin fuka. Lokacin da yake saurayi, manomi na Chapman ya koya masa zuwa wata gonar inabin, wanda shine inda ya koyi dukan apples. Lokacin da yake dan shekara 18, ya bar Massachusetts don Yammacin Pennsylvania.
Johnny da apples
Kodayake labarin da Johnny Appleseed ya yi, yana da yaduwar tsaba a ko'ina cikin Ohio Valley a matsayin kyautar karimci, gaskiyar ita ce Chapman ta girma bishiyoyin bishiyoyi don riba, duk da haka wani mutum ne mai mahimmanci. Manufarsa ita ce ta tsammaci zuwan manyan al'ummomi na masu zaman kansu zuwa ga abin da ya faru, a farkon karni na 19, iyakar yammacin Amurka. Ya kafa kafa ɗaya daga bishiyoyi guda biyu zuwa bishiyoyi kuma ya sayar da su zuwa mazaunin su na shida a itace.
Chapman ya kafa wasu asali don aikinsa, a Yammacin Pennsylvania da kuma daga bisani a Richland County Ohio. Ya yi tafiya zuwa ko'ina a kogin Ohio, dasa shuki da kuma kulawa da gonarsa.
Johnny Appleseed a Ohio
Johnny Appleseed da bishiyoyin bishiyoyi sun shafe arewacin Ohio. Yunkurinsa na farko ya kasance a gabashin Ohio, tare da Kogin Ohio , amma a lokacin rayuwarsa yana da yawa a cikin Columbiana, Richland, da Ashland County da kuma Defiance County a Arewa maso yammacin Ohio.
Johnny da Addini
John Chapman ya kwatanta addinin kirista na Ikilisiyar New Jerusalem.
Wannan ƙungiya na Krista, bisa ga rubuce-rubuce na Edward Swedenborg, na inganta rayuwar mai sauƙi da kuma individualism. Dangane da waɗannan kayan, Chapman ya ce ya riga ya yi ado da tufafi da aka yi da saffai kuma ya yi amfani da tukunyar tukunya a matsayin hat, yana zaune a cikin ƙasa yayin da yake tafiya. Ya kasance daya daga cikin masu cin ganyayyaki a kasar.
Mutuwa da Jana'izar
John Chapman ya mutu ba zato ba tsammani na ciwon huhu a ranar 18 ga Maris 1845, a gidan abokinsa. An binne shi kawai a waje da Wayne Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Johnny Appleseed Yau
Rayuwa da aikin Johnny Appleseed har yanzu ana yin bikin a cikin Midwest. A cikin watanni na rani, cibiyar Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center a Ashland ta samar da wasan kwaikwayo na waje game da labarin Johnny Appleseed. (an dakatar da wannan aikin na dan lokaci, cibiyar na fatan sake dawowa a nan gaba.)
Bugu da ƙari, da dama birane sun haɗu da bikin Johnny Appleseed kowace Satumba. Mafi yawan waɗannan shine bikin a Santa Ana Santa Ana, Indiana, a kusa da kabarin arborist. Kusa da Cleveland, Lisbon Ohio, a yankin Columbia ke kuma ha] a da wani bikin shekara-shekara.