Colonel John Pemberton created Coca-Cola in 1885 at Pemberton’s Eagle Drug and Chemical House, his drugstore in Columbus, Georgia. where he registered Pemberton’s French Wine Coca nerve tonic. The first sales were at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886, where it initially sold for five cents a glass. Drugstore soda fountains were popular in the United States at the time due to the belief that carbonated water was good for the health. The first bottling of Coca-Cola occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Biedenharn Candy Company on March 12, 1894. The proprietor of the bottling works was Joseph A. Biedenharn. The original bottles were Hutchinson bottles, very different from the much later hobble-skirt design of 1915 now so familiar. This is a refreshingly delicious carbonated soda! Drink Coca-Cola!
