Per Columbus, Georgia 1828-1978, publ. Apr 1978 by Columbus Sesquicentennial, Inc. "Unique for a medium-sized southern city was the extensive chemical laboratory of J. S. Pemberton. He employed chemists and pharmacists who distilled a whole range of pharmaceuticals, patent medicines, hair restorers, perfumes like "sweet Southern Bouquet," paints, photographic chemicals, and a great variety of sparking soda water which he dispensed from an "elegant marble font" i his drugstore. Certainly one of these refreshments must have been "French Wine of Cocoa" - a remedy for excesses which evolved into Coca-Cola after Pemberton moved to Atlanta in 1880.* *In 1919, Earnest Woodruff, a former Columbusite, and W.D. Bradley bought the Coca-Cola company and made it an international concern."