This is a list (I have comprised from various sources over the years), of known
whiskey merchants in Bristol, from its beginnings and up to 1916, when prohibition was enacted as law...
In Bristol's early days, most Inns and Houses ( Hotels) had bars for the selling of whiskey,etc.
For that reason I am including these in the list.
{an asterix * indicates there are bottles known from the saloon.}
1854-82...J.N. Bosang
1855-62...Wm. Walters
1855.....Langhorne's Tavern
1854.....Cawood House
Ezekiel Cawood
1858.....Magnolia House
(formerly Langhorne's Tavern)
Peck & Langhorne
1858.....Lancaster House
1865-87...Virginia House
(formerly Lancaster House)
J.H. Everett &
Maj. J.G. Wood
1859.....Jamison's Bowling Saloon
1861.....John T. Meggison's Ten-Pin Alley
1862.....Exchange Hotel
A.L. Womack &
W.W. Nickels
Main cor 4th St.
1865.....Exchange Saloon
Luttrell & Gilliam
1866.....Thomas House
J. Wheeler Thomas
& S.M. Jones
1866.....Nickels House Bar
W.H. & I.A.
Nickels
(formerly The Exchange)
Bar
& Billiard Saloon
1869.....Central Hotel & Barroom
A.V. Spradling
1872*.....Nickel Plate Saloon
Isaac
A. Nickels
1886 Front St.
cor Cumberland
1873..... Virginia House Bar
J.M. Thomas
1875-1907...European Hotel & Barroom
John W. Jett
44 Main St.
By 1886 Jett moved
to 646 Main St.
1880.....C.C. Harmeling ( bottled Beer)
King Block - Goodson, VA.
1881.....Thomas House (reopened)
J.M. Thomas
1888.....Stanley House
1888.....C.C. Harmeling Bar
Front & Cumberland
(Built the Harmeling
Opera House with
a saloon)
1888.....A. Luttrell
1888.....W.L. Satterwhite
1888.....D.W. Shelly
1888.....Byrne Wilson
1889.....J.W. Waynick ( bottled Beer)
4th St.
1891 at Virginia &
Broad Sts.
1889.....Hotel Fairmont
Geo.L. Jacoby -
Bartender
1890.....Hotel St.Lawrence
Geo.L. Jacoby -
Prop.
Front St.
1890.....Mann Wolf
1890.....C.G. Davis
1890.....Annex Saloon
T. Betterton
Cumberland St.
1890.....Arlington Hotel
Burke & Trammell
150 Front St.
1890-1906...Oregon Saloon
G.G. Hickman
403 Main St.
By 1896 Cumberland
cor Lee
1890-1905...Twin City Bar at
Arlington Hotel
N.H. Burke
150 Front St.
1892-1906*...Phoenix Saloon
W.A. Usher
106 Front St.
1892-1907*...S.G. Keller,Jr.
512 & 516 Main St.
W.M. Marks &
C.Ritchie affiliated
with Keller, as Salesmen
in 1890's.
Marks located at Thomas
House.
Ritchie at Hamilton
House
S.G. Keller,Sr. owned a
saloon in
Abingdon,VA.as early as 1888
1896-1907*...J.M. Berry Saloon
626 Main St.
1896-1916*...W.A. Fincannon
714 Main St.
1914-Mgr. State Line Whiskey
Co.
1896.....Martin McHale
116 Front St.
1896.....J.W. Hyderpool
15 4th St.
1896.....J.T. Powell - Agent
Middlesboro Brewing Co.
25 4th St.
1896.....Matt Powers - Agent
Chattanooga Brewing Co.
nr Southern RR Yards
1896-1911...Columbus Ritchie
302 Main St.
relocated from Abingdon,VA.,
had
operated a
saloon there as early as
1888, merged
with Bryan in 1905.
1896-98...Likel Simon
(black bartender at Nickel's)
1896.....E.L. Wolfe
624 Main St
1896-1906*...Thos. J. Kain (Cain)
411 Main St.
1899.....Alhambra Saloon
W.D. Surface
1901-14*...Heller Brothers
M.A. & A.B.
Heller
507 Main St. & 511-513
State St.
1907, Heller Bros. were in
Macon,
GA., Jacksonville,FL. & Knoxville,
TN. In October, they
were to open
an outlet in Middlesboro,KY
& re-locating
their Macon Business
to Chattanooga,TN.
1902.....Tompkins Bros.
1902.....Goldberg & Sam Glass
1904.....Hotel Hamilton
1904.....Thomas G. Brady
519 State St.
1904.....Charles T. Crowell
21 4th St.
1904.....Wm.A. Dean
804 State St
1904.....John Q. Perigen
724 State St
