CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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Brewer/bottler #7471 | | Name | Celery-Cola Bottling Company (Danville, WV) |
| | | | | | | | Extra info | The building was used in 1885 by the Continental Brewing Co., then as the Robert Portner Brewing Company, which – due to Prohibition – became Celery-Cola Bottling Company.
The Danville plant had a branch at Spray, NC, in 1923 that moved to Leaksville in 1925.
There was a plant at Reidsville, NC, that closed in 1918 due to bankruptcy.
Between about 1885 and 1889, the Robert Portner Brewing Company opened depots at Richmond, at Danville and at Phoebus, Virginia. The advantage of a market in the growing state capital was obvious. Phoebus provided a second location near the mouth of the James River, convenient to Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk and Chesapeake, and Danville was a mere 70 miles by rail from the Lynchburg branch and on the doorstep of North Carolina. Indeed, the Carolinas proved to be the next frontier, with toeholds at Charlotte and Raleigh and Goldsboro before 1886. Portner's business had become successful enough that he received buy-out offers from both Washington's Christian Heurich and an English syndicate that may have included the owners of the huge Allsopp brewery of Burton-on-Trent. But he refused to sell for less than “an extravagant price.†Perhaps more important than his southern markets and facilities was the fact that he was planning to expand in Washington, and the established D.C. brewers did not need extra competition |
| | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | Name 1 | Robert Portner Brewing Company (Danville, VA) |
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