Oak Creek Bottling Company

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The Oak Creek Bottle Company is a long rectangular building with a gabled roof and wood siding. There is a gabled dormer on the east side of the roof and small addition with a slant roof on what was the front of the building.

The view of the building in the picture on the left faces what is now the alley between Colfax street and Highway 131.

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When Thomas O’Connor became the proprietor of the “Lone Star Bottling Works,” he turned the whole company around. He was said to have visited every bottling company in the west. Mr. O’Connor was convinced that there was only one other bottling company in the west that had the ability to acieve the high standard of cleanliness that the local plant had. All of the water that was used to make soda here was distilled, and this, according to O’ Connor, insured an “absolutely pure product.” After the name was changed to the “Oak Creek Bottling Company,” O’ Connor installed the most modern bottle washer available at that time. Thomas also changed the flavors to make them the equal of any made.

Information gathered with the help of Mike Yurich of the Historical Society of Oak Creek & Phippsburg by Chelsea & Abe at Soroco High School, May 2004.

2004 view of the residence that was the Oak Creek Bottling Company. [Click here to view full size picture]