COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Historic Columbus has installed an exhibit about Dr. John Pemberton, the pharmacist remembered for inventing Coca-Cola, in the main lobby at the historic YMCA building at 118 ...
Dr. John Pemberton was a successful chemist in Columbus, Georgia. His business of selling tonics, homemade concoctions, and medicines prospered in the 1850s, but events in the Civil War threatened his ...