When was the first bottle of Coca Cola sold?
Coca-Cola was first bottled and sold in 1894 by Joseph Biedenharn. Here’s an excerpt from the Coca-Cola Company website: ” In 1894, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Joseph A. Biedenharn was so impressed by the growing demand for Coca-Cola at his soda fountain that he installed bottling machinery in the rear of his store and began to sell cases of Coca-Cola to farms and lumber camps up and down the Mississippi River. He was the first bottler of Coca-Cola. Early bottle for Coca-Cola Large-scale bottling was made possible in 1899, when Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead of Chattanooga, Tennessee, secured from Mr. Candler the exclusive rights to bottle and sell Coca-Cola in practically the entire United States. With contract in hand, they joined another Chattanoogan, John T. Lupton, and began to develop what is today the worldwide Coca-Cola bottling system. The first bottling plant under the new contract was opened in Chattanooga in 1899, the second in Atlanta the following year. By then
