Eisenhardt Stable - 111 East Second Street

Description:	The 1859 city directory lists the building as McCubbin and Sons Livery. It was also called a livery and sale barn at one point. For several years in the 1880s it was the Fashion livery run by W.C. Watt. Louis Eisenhardt was the last one to use it as a livery and stable. According to Harry Lemen it was the last livery in Madison. Louis died in 1935 and after that time the old building wore many hats. It served as a beverage warehouse, a storage room for the Madison Courier and even a bottling works. The Try Me Bottling Works was located here for several years. The bottling works moved from Main Street to this address in 1939. The Courier stated on May 23, 1939, Roy Cranford, president and general manager of the concern, has leased the Eisenhardt property, a two story brick building on Second Street now owned by Vawter Irwin, in which he will install $20,000 worth of new machinery. Some of the flavors manufactured were: Red Rock Cola, Nu-Grape, Rose-Bud Root Beer, Lemon Soda, 4% Mixer, Five-O Chocolate, Strawberry, Cheer-Up, Vichey, Syphons, Ginger Ale, Lime-Rickey and Cherry. Tragically, Mr. Cranford died a few weeks after this announcement and the bottling works was taken over for a time by someone else but in a few years faded away. After the bottling works left, the old building was again used for many purposes.
Origin:	1935
Created By:	Harry Lemen, photographer
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4038coll5/id/185
Collection:	River to Rail and Lemen Collection
Copyright:	Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main Street Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744
Geography:	Indiana-Jefferson County-Madison
Subjects:	Stables Livery Business enterprises Sale barn Warehouses

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