The Bottle, Alabama
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The Bottle, Alabama is a community located in the northern corporate limits of Auburn, Alabama. The Bottle is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 280 and Alabama Highway 147, five miles north of downtown Auburn, and adjacent to the Auburn University North Fisheries Research Complex.
The Bottle is located at 32°40'34"N 85°29'11"W; its elevation is 760 feet.
The Bottle is named for the bright orange wooden replica of a Nehi soda bottle which stood in the location for nine years during the 1920s and 1930s.
Built in 1924, and billed as "the world's largest bottle", The Bottle stood 64-feet (19.5 m) tall, and measured forty-nine feet (14.94 m)in diameter at the base, and 16 feet (4.88 m) at the cap. The structure contained a gas station, grocery store, and residence. Observation windows built into the neck of the bottle provided a view of miles of countryside.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stopped briefly at The Bottle after visiting Auburn.
The Bottle itself burned down in 1933, most-likely due to faulty electrical wiring.
Despite the loss, the name for the area stuck, and the community officially became "The Bottle, Alabama".
Currently, in The Bottle's former location stands only an empty lot. The property was put on sale in 2005 by First Realty of Auburn. The land was purchased in early 2006 by The Hayley Redd Development Company
[edit] References
- Logue, Mickey & Simms, Jack (1996). Auburn: A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village, Revised. Auburn, Ala. ISBN 1-885860-08-0
