- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- W. B. Roddenbery Company
- Creator:
- Bowers, Paige
- Date of Original:
- 2006-09-15
- Subject:
- W. B. Roddenbery Company
Food industry and trade--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Grady County, Cairo, 30.87751, -84.20214
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the W. B. Roddenbery Company. Georgia's first pure cane syrup was made by Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery, a Cairo doctor who practiced medicine by horseback and ran a general store. Over time, Roddenbery's syrup business--the W. B. Roddenbery Company--became a regional favorite that also included pickles and peanut butter. In 1993 the business was folded into Dean Foods, a larger national company.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/w-b-roddenbery-company/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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