The Global Food Heritage Project identifies the places connected with our food heritage and spotlights the people who continue to preserve these sites today.

Food Heritage Sites:

Where Foods Began

Agricultural Technology

Farms

Ranches

Meat Industry

Seafood Industry

Orchards, Groves
& Plantations

Wineries & Breweries

Markets

Kitchens, Dining Halls & Cafeterias

Restaurants

Taverns, Pubs, Cafes & Teahouses

Processing Sites

Baking

Famous Recipe Sites

Factories

Famous Foodies

Corporate Origins

Historic Food Events

Museums & Exhibits

Remembering Food Places Past

Global Food Heritage Project:

Corporate Origins

H.J. Heinz House
Childhood home of the founder of H.J. Heinz Corporation
Moved from Sharpsburg, PA to Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI

"The Heinz House was the boyhood home of H.J. Heinz, located in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1869, Henry John Heinz, the son of German immigrants, began to produce and bottle horseradish in the basement of this house, the beginning of a world-famous food processing and packaging business.

By 1900, the H.J. Heinz Company was one of the largest packaged food companies in the world.

The Heinz House contains the desk that H.J. Heinz used, a gift from his mother, in the H.J. Heinz Company headquarters, between 1878 and 1890. Christmas 1890 the "lady" employees gave a desk chair as a gift to H.J. Heinz.

Today the building features H.J. Heinz artifacts exhibiting the brand name advertising pioneering efforts of H.J. Heinz in America. The exhibition includes 100’s of original labels, brochures, advertisements, buttons, and photography showing the progression of advertising."

More sites associated with the history of food corporations to be listed here.
(This is a work in progress. We welcome input. Contact us.)