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John Stith Pemberton, a pharmacist in Atlanta, invented Coca-Cola in 1886. [1] He sold the formula two years later to Asa Griggs Candler, [2] who shortly thereafter founded The Coca-Cola Company. In 2007, the company opened a new museum in downtown Atlanta called the World of Coca-Cola. [3]
The Scottdale train station. Scottdale was home to 30,000 coke ovens in the early 1900's. [9] These coke ovens were operated by hundreds of mining companies, this was due to Scottdale's location on the Pennsylvania Railroad which allowed these companies to ship coal and coke to major cities across the United States.
The company was formed by John Hartwell Hillman Sr. [2] He established the Hillman Coal and Coke Company, and J. H. Hillman & Sons, which was eventually run by his three sons. [3] Hillman Coal and Coke Company later became Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical, and it is now Calgon Carbon. The company built coal patch towns in the following locations:
On May 8, 1964, Duncan Coffee merged with the Coca-Cola Company, and Duncan joined the Coke board of directors. [6] [7] He ran the newly formed Coca-Cola Foods Division, which included the coffee and citrus (Minute Maid) divisions of Coke. Three years later the company dispatched him to London to serve as chairman of Coca-Cola Europe.
Cullman Coal and Coke Company - attempted to build a public railroad from Cullman to Bremen 1911-17 but only completed six miles which were leased to a private lumber company. [ 312 ] [ 313 ] Montgomery and Southern Railway - began 1880 to build a narrow-gauge line south from Montgomery to the Gulf coast, but only got as far as Luverne by 1889.
Five years later the H.C. Frick Coke Company produced 298,000 short tons (266,000 long tons; 270,000 t) of coal and 194,000 short tons (173,000 long tons; 176,000 t) of coke at the United Mine & Coke Works. Frick had expanded the United Coke Works to 350 coke ovens, employing 341 men and boys in the mine and coke yard.
The Coca-Cola Syrup Plant is a former industrial building in St. Louis, Missouri that made soft drink concentrate for the Coca-Cola company. The National Register of Historic Places listed the structure which has since been converted to the residential Temtor Lofts .
It was built in 1900 and expanded about 1903, and is a two-story, red brick office building. The rectangular plan building measures approximately 40 feet by 70 feet. It has a hipped roof with secondary dormer windows. It served as the "field operating office" or "mining headquarters" for Davis Coal and Coke Company from 1900 to 1950.