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Coca-Cola was first bottle in 1899 at a plant on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee after two local attorneys purchased the bottling rights to the drink for $l.00. |
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. |
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Cotton made Memphis, Tennessee a major port on the Mississippi River. The Memphis Cotton Exchange still handles approximately one-third of the entire American cotton crop each year. |
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