Dadeville Coca-Cola Company - Dadeville, AL
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N 32° 49.893 W 085° 45.913
16S E 615570 N 3633288
About 5 years after Coca-Cola Co. made its trademarked contour 6.5 oz glass bottles, a Coca-Cola bottling plant was opened in Dadeville. The plant provided Coca-Cola to towns & cities all over the east side of the Tallapoosa River.
Waymark Code: WM184ZC
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 05/31/2023
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Marker text:
In 1912, Adam Hill Wilder opened a Coca-Cola bottling plant at
the corner of Cussetta and West streets. Wilder's plant produced
the beverage in 6.5-ounce glass bottles, filled one at a time by
machine. A case of thirty-four bottles cost 80¢. For two
decades, the franchise serviced communities in Tallapoosa County
east of the Tallapoosa River, including regular routes between
Camp Hill, Carrville, Dadeville, Dudleyville, Easton, Jacksons Gap,
Reeltown, and Union. The plant also supplied Coca-Cola to the
construction site of the Thomas Wesley Martin Dam, built
southwest of Dadeville between 1923 and 1926. Thirsty workers
sometimes drank more than 300 cases of Coca-Cola a day.
In the 1930s, a businessman from Columbus, Georgia, purchased
the Dadeville and nearby Alexander City Coca-Cola franchises.
The Dadeville plant closed soon thereafter.
Marker Name: Dadeville Coca-Cola Company 1912~1934
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
Erected by the Alabama Historical Association.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2017
Marker Number: Not listed
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