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The complete history of the Green Giant Co. is displayed at the Le Sueur Museum in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The company was founded in 1903 as the Minnesota Valley Canning Company. How 1953 Jolly!
From the category archives:
Foods
Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum in Crookston, Minnesota appears to focus on farm equipment….Harvest Festival in September.
In the early 1800s America had her own native spices and herbs, and merchants from Salem Massachusetts still traded for exotic spices from the far east.
Mid-1800s refrigeration in ships lessened the status and prices of the spice trade, but demand and competition was still keen.
1869: a spice mill was added to Hulman & Company’s [Clabber Girl] grocery store wholesale business.
1873: Tone Brothers, Inc. founded and still located in Des Moines, Iowa, today is perhaps second in volume to McCormick, and distributes Durkee Spices, Fleischmann’s Yeast, and Spice Islands products. Tone is also the leading supplier of spices to national warehouse club chains.[1]
1889: Willoughby M. McCormick founded McCormick Spices in Baltimore, working out of one room and a cellar. The initial products were sold door-to-door and included root beer, flavoring extracts, fruit syrups and juices. Seven years later, McCormick bought the F.G. Emmett Spice Company and entered the spice industry….
“Make the Best – Someone Will Buy It.” [2]
Late-1900s: Fewer home cooks drastically decreased the volume of the spice market.
Raye’s Mustard Mill Museum is a working stone-ground mustard mill and mustard shop in Eastport, Maine. The family began making mustard to compliment the local sardine industry.
Speaking of sardines, there is a Sardine Museum in Lubec, Maine — travel from the mustard museum either 38 miles by car, or only 4 miles by boat.
At the Laurel Valley Village/Plantation Museum and Country Store in Thibodaux, Louisiana you can visit the sugar cane plantation museum and view the outside of the historic sugar cane farming village left intact.
