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Chattanooga is the site of the World’s First Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Before Coca-Cola first appeared in bottles, it was sold as a fountain drink for more than a decade. The world’s best known taste was born on May 8, 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia. The taste originated in a three-legged brass kettle sitting in the backyard of Dr. John Stythe Pemberton. Pemberton, a local pharmacist and concocter of medicinal beverages, stirred up a caramel-colored syrup creation that we know today as Coca-Cola