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Streetscape renovations uncover a bit of Cedartown's past
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Charles Watkins, a concrete finisher working on the Streetscape project in Downtown Cedartown, stands with Sandra Cantrell, office clerk at The Cedartown Standard , at the newspaper office as they admire a glass Coca-Cola bottle from 1923 Watkins found while digging out dirt and concrete with a Bobcat. (Photo: Todd Ollis/The Cedartown Standard)
Charles Watkins, a concrete finisher working on the Streetscape project in Downtown Cedartown, stands with Sandra Cantrell, office clerk at The Cedartown Standard , at the newspaper office as they admire a glass Coca-Cola bottle from 1923 Watkins found while digging out dirt and concrete with a Bobcat. (Photo: Todd Ollis/The Cedartown Standard)
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"Cedartown" is engraved on the bottom of the bottle. The Cedartown Standard office are located in what was formerly a bottling plant for the Coca-Cola Company. (Photo: Todd Ollis/The Cedartown Standard)
"Cedartown" is engraved on the bottom of the bottle. The Cedartown Standard office are located in what was formerly a bottling plant for the Coca-Cola Company. (Photo: Todd Ollis/The Cedartown Standard)
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A worker with the Downtown Cedartown Streetscape project unearthed a relic from the town's past in front of The Cedartown Standard office.

Charles Watkins, a concrete finisher working on the project, was clearing out dirt and the old concrete when he saw a glass Coca-Cola bottle.

Watkins said he was amazed to find the bottle still intact, and he was even more amazed when he saw the date on the bottle. The date reads Dec. 25, 1923.

On the bottom of the bottle, the word "Cedartown" is engraved. The Cedartown Standard office is located in what was formerly a bottling plant for the Coca-Cola Company.
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carfen
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September 12, 2011
Just read the newspaper and read this about the old coke bottle found on main street, we also found 2 old coke bottles when they tore off our old dock last summer to do sewer repair, the only numbers we found on them are 58-78 and they were made in Cedartown, Ga. Just wondering- is he going to get to keep his finding?
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September 11, 2011
I guess the commissioners will be glad to take that little bottle off Mr. Watkins' hands and put it in a safe place. After all he was working for the city, on city property, when he made the discovery. Just think what you might find at the bottom of Cedar Creek if you removed all of the floating debris and sifted through the layers of muck that have built-up through decades of neglect and pollution. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were handed over to Cedartown for the shovel ready project, Streetscape. How much was spent on Second Street? Walk across the Second Street foot bridge, think about it for a minute, and you will see the direction we are headed. Call your commissioner and tell him that you want Cedar Creek cleaned up - NOW! They went to Obama once for Main Street money. Tell them to see if he can kick in a million or so for our namesake waterway, Cedar Creek.
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