WATAUGA BOTTLING WORKS

The Watauga Bottling Works was incorporated on July 29, 1911 with Nat T. Perry acting as President.(1) They are located on the corner of Pine Street and Elk Avenue, and besides bottling soda also manufactured ice.(2) By 1928 they are bottling Good Grape and Jumbo Beverages, along with distributing Budweiser (I'm assuming a non alcoholic version due to the date), and Bevo, Budweiser's temperance drink at the time.(2) In the same ad they claim to be the oldest ice manufacturers in Carter county.(2) This ad also lists the officers of the corporation, Lon Hendrickson, of Elizabethton, as President, Howard Wilson, of Kingsport, TN, as Vice President, and finally Nat T. Perry as Secretary and Manager.(2) Apparently sometime in late 1928 or early 1929 the company goes out of business and I assume is sold to C. R. Crouch and William L. Crouch who start up the Seminole Bottling Company(3), the fact that Watauga and Seminole Bottling are both bottling brands produced by the Seminole Flavors Company of Chattanooga, Tenn. Leads me to believe that the company just changed hands and relinquished the franchise for Seminole Flavors products.

Today the building that once housed the Watauga Bottling Works is the Picket Fence Antique shop.

Early Straight Side Watauga Bottling Works bottle

7oz Aqua "straight side" WBW in slug plate soda water bottle

Watauga Bottling Works ad from 1922

6oz Good Grape bottle dated 1924

Watauga Bottling Works bottle opener

7 1/2 oz Jumbo Sugar Beverages bottle.

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