TENN-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF KINGSPORT, TENN

The Tenn-Cola Bottling Company of Kingsport was incorporated on February 1, 1916 with Enoch W. Tipton of Kingsport as President, and John A. Roberts as Secretary Treasurer.(1) The funny thing about this bottler is that the “principal office” was not in Kingsport at all, but in Big Stone Gap, VA.(1) The company is listed in the Foreign Corporations section of The Pubic Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the Sixtieth General Assembly as being registered as such on May 29, 1916.(2) This fact makes me think that maybe there was a bottling plant in Kingsport as well at one point, or at least they distributed the product in that city, because being listed in the “foreign Corporations” section usually means that that company is “doing business” in that state, but is incorporated in another state. The company obviously existed earlier than its incorporation as it was first reportedly inspected by the Dairy and Food Commissioner of Virginia in the quarterly report of the same of June 1, 1915-August 30, 1915, and again in the September 1, 1915-Novermber 30, 1915 report.(3)

An amber Tenn-Cola Bottling Company bottle dated 1916

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