FIRST - President of Coca Cola - Carrollton, GA
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N 33° 34.786 W 085° 04.378
16S E 678841 N 3717227
Marker on the courthouse lawn
Waymark Code: WMZR37
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/26/2018
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County of marker: Carroll County
Location of marker: Newman St. & Tanner St., courthouse lawn, Carrollton
Marker erected by: Georgia Historical Commission
Date marker erected: 1983
Marker Text:
SIX INDUSTRIAL GIANTS
Born within a few miles of each other were six people who are recognized as giants of industry in the southeast.
Asa G. Candler of Villa Rica was founder and first president of Coca-Cola; Sam Candler Dobbs, president of Coca-Cola; Arthur Acklen, president of Coca-Cola; Warren Sewell, father of men's clothing manufacturing in the south. D.W. Brooks started the Georgia Cotton Cooperative which became Gold Kist and Roy Richards developed Southwire into one of the largest wire companies in the world.
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