By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com
Did American folk hero John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman pass through Bluffton during his apple-tree planting career?
A recently discovered Bluffton News column reveals that possibility.
In truth, he tramped around northwestern Ohio, dying in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in 1845. Still, on a technicality, he never stopped in a village called Bluffton.
Instead, hints exist he may have visited Shannon – Bluffton’s name prior to 1861.