Iowa Canning Company Seed House Building is a historic industrial building located in Vinton , Iowa , United States . The earliest available Sanborn Map shows the building in 1885 , and lists it as S.H. Watson Canning Company . It was known as the first corn canning operation west of the Mississippi River in the 1890s . In addition to S.H. Watson , the facility went by a variety of names throughout its history : Cedar Valley Packing Company , the Vinton Canning Company , and the Iowa Canning Company . Before World War I the operation employed 250 people at its peak , and it produced more than 3 million cans annually . Ideal Industries , who manufactured hog confinement equipment and other items , occupied the building from the mid-1980s and sold it in 2002 . The structure sustained damage in the flood of 2008 , and was substantially damaged in a wind storm in 2011 . Much of the damage has been repaired . The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012
flood of 2008
Iowa flood of 2008
Iowa Canning Company Seed House Building