J. F. Hash & Sons
The J. F. Hash & Sons bottling company is one of the earliest bottlers in Appalachia, and most likely operated between 1900 and 1910. I looked up the owner James F. Hash in the federal census records for 1910, which appears to be the only one that has him in Appalachia, and found that he is listed as a merchant in a General Store. We know from the physical evidence that he bottled, so that means that we are looking for a store with a bottling room around 1910. As luck would have it I found the very thing on the 1908 Sanborn maps. There was a store, on Main Street right where it crossed the river, and this store does indeed have a bottling addition that doesn't appear to part of the original structure, maybe it was an add on later or visa versa. The odd thing is that there is no mention of J. F. Hash being one of the two bottlers in 1908. Knowing this and the fact that the Cumberland Bottling Works isn't associated with operating a store makes me think that J. F. Hash has sold his bottles and equipment to this company and leased them the bottling addition, which explains why a company that started in 1907 has a Hutchinson corking machine.
Where the van sits is where I suspect that the J. F. Hash bottling company was located.
