Historian To Share Insights On Coca-Cola Founder

CARTERSVILLE, GA -- Next week, the Bartow History Museum will welcome a historian who could shed new details on ties the founder of The Coca-Cola Company may have had to Cartersville.

Joe Head will lead the evening lecture series at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 28.

Head, a local historian, will share his research on Asa Candler, the founder of The Coca-Cola Company.

Candler was born in 1851 in Villa Rica and passed away in 1929. Along with establishing the company whose product forever changed the beverage industry, Candler was also a banker, philanthropist and once served as mayor of Atlanta.

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The presentation will reveal a much deeper family connection to Cartersville than previously known, the museum said.

Head will also share his findings to identify where the actual pharmacy where Candler worked was located on Main Street and surprising family ties to Cartersville after The Coca-Cola Company was organized.

The lecture is free to museum members and included with the price of admission for not-yet-members. The Museum is at 4 East Church Street in downtown Cartersville.

For more information on this and other museum programs, call 770-382-3818 ext. 6288 or visit our website at www.bartowhistorymuseum.org.

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Image via The Coca-Cola Company