Eagle Bottling Works

1922—1927

Eagle Bottling Works appears in the 1923 and 1925 Beverage Blue Book, and there is a bottling works in Chelyan under the name R.L. Lewis in the 1923 Dun & Bradstreet. I presume this to be the owner of Eagle Bottling Works, as Cabin Creek Junction is not so much a town as it is a location nearby to Chelyan, where Cabin Creek forms a junction with the Kanawha River. Lewis’ listings as a bottler in Dun & Bradstreett go back to 1922. Lastly, there is a lawsuit filed against Eagle Bottling Works in Kanawha County in 1927 by Charleston Bottling Works (“Chancery Cases,” 1927). Without a definitive date for when this business shut down, I imagine going against a much larger bottling firm in court would bankrupt it, so, for now, I will put an end date on this bottler for 1927.