California and Florida each produce fresh-market tomatoes on 30,000-40,000 acres--almost two-thirds of total U.S. fresh-tomato acreage (a share that has not changed much since the 1960s). Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee round out the top six in terms of area planted.
Ichabod comes from the biblical name of the grandson of Eli the High Priest and son of Phinehas. Irving might have borrowed the name from that of Ichabod Crane, a colonel in the US Army during the War of 1812 whom he had met in 1814 in Sackets Harbor, New York.
Stephen Crane enjoyed both popular success and critical acclaim as a leading American author of the Realist. school. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871, Crane was the youngest of fourteen children born to Jonathan. Townley Crane and Mary Helen Peck Crane.