Hello, We are tea drinkers, and I like to use different brands of tea for variety. Yesterday I went to open a box of Salada tea and noticed a bit of history of the Salada Tea Company. The first corporate headquarters and packaging plant was opened in Boston, MA, in 1917. And, the Salada Tea Building still exists.* I did a search for the history of Lipton Tea, and came across this web site. It mentions the life of .. Thomas LIPTON .. who "was the son of poor Irish immigrants" who "grew up in the slums of Glasgow." He was b.1850, and at Age 10 ... "went to America." http://www.geocities.com/lgol27/HistoryTeaCeylon.htm I also looked for the history of Red Rose Tea, and discovered that company began in .. Canada, and involves the ESTABROOKS name in 1899 in New Brunswick. Hope people find this interesting. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) FYI: Here is something I found by accident - a timeline for popular food and kitchen items .. when they were introduced to the world. http://www.geocities.com/foodedge/timeline.htm *If you do a Google search for either "tea history" or "Salada tea" or "Salada history," you will find many web sites discussing the history of tea, and when "tea" was first used and why, and telling about a tea museum in Taiwan.