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By Cosmos Mariner, June 28, 2021
Iowa Canning Company Seed House (east elevation)
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1 ► Iowa, Benton County, Vinton — Iowa Canning Co. Seed House — “First canning plant west of the Mississippi” —  |
| National Register of Historic Places March 12, 2012 — — Map (db m239600) HM | |||
| 2 ► Iowa, Benton County, Vinton — Sweet Corn Day Festival — Vinton, Iowa — 1929 - 1959 — |
| When ground was broken in November of 1879 for the S.H. Watson Canning Company, it was the beginning of Vinton's identity as the "Corn Canning Capital of the World". Eventually, the Vinton canning industry grew to be the largest in the Midwest. It . . . — — Map (db m176268) HM | |||