APPALACHIA BOTTLING COMPANY

The Appalachia Bottling Company was apparently originally owned by H. F. Whitehead who on October 1, 1906 sold the business to the firm of Johnson & Hale(1) who ran a grocery concern in Appalachia which was most likely in business for a while prior to this acquisition, in fact Archelious H. Hale is listed as a clerk in a dry goods store in the 1900 census. The firm of Johnson & Hale was dissolved on October 2, 1907, with A. H. Hale buying out his partner’s interest.(1) Johnson continued to employ his trade of watch making and repairing.(1) Hale would rename the store the Spot Cash Store which dealt in "Staple and Fancy Groceries and Country Produce", he would take on a partner named S. A. Collier who would take over the store August of 1908.(1) Hale would sale his bottling company to George Barsa in October 1908, and move to London KY to start up a new bottling plant there(1), where he still is according to the 1910 census. I’m speculating that Hale used the equipment he purchased at auction on May 16, 1908, which was the entire plant of the Cumberland Bottling Company(1), and moved this equipment to London KY to start a new operation there. George Barsa is still listed as a bottler in the 1910 census. My best guess is that this company was located on Main Street according to a 1908 Sanborn map, but would be torn down later to make way for a hotel which still stands.

This seems to be where the building that held the bottling company once stood in 1908. Eventually it was torn down to make way for this building

Part of a bottle from Appalachia Bottling Company

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