First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States is a Tennessee historical marker in Hamilton County.

Hamilton Co, 23 Patton Pkwy. Bottling Co. in the U.S.

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On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas Lupton, provided financial backing for the future development of the bottling business. The first Coca-Cola Bottling Company began operations at this site in November 1899.

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Historical maps covering this location

1888 · Chattanooga, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1893 · Chattanooga, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1896 · Map of the Battlefields of Chattanooga and Wauhatchie (E. E. Betts, Chickamauga and… (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
1901 · Sanborn Fire Insurance Map — Chattanooga, Tenn. (1901) (OldInsuranceMaps.net — Sanborn Map Collection)
1936 · Chattanooga, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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