Saturday, January 29, 2022

Did you know that the success of Coca-Cola in Birmingham is owed to a mule?...

 
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Did you know that the success of Coca-Cola in Birmingham is owed to a mule?

Beginning with one employee, a mule, and a foot-powered bottling machine, Crawford Johnson Sr. purchased the exclusive franchise rights, in 1902, to bottle and distribute Coca-Cola in Birmingham, Alabama. Success is owed to a mule Today, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. produces and distributes over 400 Coca-Cola products across six states. The company employs nearly […]

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PATRON + The University of Alabama football team was represented by the Alabama cadets in 1892 [vintage pictures]

The 1892 Alabama Cadets football team represented the University of Alabama in the 1892 college football season. The team was led by head coach E. B. Beaumont and played their home games at Lakeview Park in Birmingham, Alabama. In what was the inaugural season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of two […]

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Jeremiah Austill (b. 1794) tells where he settled in Alabama and of relationship with the Native Americans

Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his actual words in this autobiography from him. The autobiography was published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly in 1944 and the fourth part of the article is transcribed here which tells about the relationship with […]

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PATRON + BIOGRAPHY: Hugh M. Warren born ca. 1800

This biography is included in the Book First Families of Lawrence County, Alabama Volume I HUGH M. WARREN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. ca. 1800) Lawrence County, Alabama  The third sheriff of Lawrence County resided first in Madison and was sheriff of that county. His first wife was Miss Hart and they settled near Leighton. Since […]

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