Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time on March 12, 1894 when a candy merchant in Vicksburg, Mississippi, began bottling the fountain drink to make it accessible to customers in the rural areas. The straight bottles were significantly different from the contour bottles which became famous later
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