Young Henry J. Heinz planted a small plot of horseradish in his family garden near Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. In his teens, he began to bottle and sell dried and grated horseradish in clear glass bottles. By 1869, he had converted his old homestead into a horseradish cannery and the H.J. Heinz Co. was born. More products followed and the "57 Varieties" trademark originated with Heinz himself in 1896. Today, Heinz products number in the thousands.