Biedenharn Museum & Gardens, Monroe, La
A walk through historic Biedenharn Museum & Gardens in Monroe, La.
Home and garden in Monroe of Joseph Biedenharn, founder of the Coca Cola industry. Photos of the garden through the seasons, information about events.
Biedenharn Museum and Gardens - Monroe LA
This is the first of our video series created to spotlight some of the people, places and things that make Monroe and West Monroe community a wonderful place to live and visit. In this installment, Al Peterson, an agent with John Rea Realty in Monroe Louisiana talks with The Biedenharn Museum and Gardens' executive director Ralph Calhoun about the exhibits, classes and community events offered at the museum.
Christmas at the Beidenharn Museum in Monroe Louisiana
One of the most interesting people in America settled in Monroe Louisiana. Today his home is a museum and garden with a fabulous Christmas display.
Joseph A. Biedenharn, (December 13, 1866 – October 9, 1952) was an American businessman and confectioner credited in the summer of 1894 with having first bottled the soda fountain drink, Coca-Cola, at his wholesale candy company building in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As he expanded this business, he created a model of bottling-distributor franchises and built his company through this state, as well as Louisiana and Texas.
In 1913, he moved the manufacturing and bottling operations to Monroe, Louisiana, continuing to grow the business. With his son Malcolm and other entrepreneurs, in 1925 he bought a crop-dusting business. They added eighteen planes to the fleet, making it the largest private one in the world. They developed this business as Delta Air Lines, moving it later to Atlanta, Georgia. The Biedenharn family has had a philanthropic tradition in both Vicksburg and Monroe, making major contributions to historic, educational, recreational and charitable purposes.
He and his wife had a large mansion and gardens designed for them. The Biedenharn home in Monroe is now a tourist attraction, operated as the Biedenharn Museum and Gardens at 2000 Riverside Drive. It is visited by 25,000 to 30,000 persons per year. The original Biedenharn home is furnished as it was during the years when the Biedenharns' daughter, Emy-Lou, a contralto opera singer prior to World War II, resided there until her death in 1984. In addition, the house has an area of soft drink exhibits, and a Bible Museum with rare books. It also hosts rotating exhibits.
Young and old can connect to the gracious life of his daughter Emy-Lou through guided tours of the house. The rooms are exhibited as they were lived in, reflecting the eclectic taste of a well-traveled woman. In the furnishings and accessories, one will see Emy-Lou’s love of music, nature and family.
Decorated with rare furniture and antiques featured in the library, music, dining, breakfast and living rooms. The bedrooms display crystal chandeliers, high tester beds, and artistic accessories highlighting Emy-Lou’s European singing career.
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Chennault Aviation and Military Museum - Monroe LA
This is a must visit place in Northeast Louisiana. Our own Frances Cox has family ties in the museum's exhibits, and the director Nell Calloway is General Chennault's granddaughter. Watch to find out more about Chennault's journey to China and the start of the Flying Tigers. A great amount of history is included in the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe LA. From WWI to recent conflicts in the Middle East, the Chennault has an amazing collection of artifacts.
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The Biedenharn
Museum & Gardens
The Biedenharn Museum and Garden has something everyone can enjoy including the historic home of the Biedenharn family, a beautiful formal garden, a Bible Museum, and a Coke Museum. Young and old are welcomed to experience the excitement of guided tours, special exhibits, childrens programs, concerts, recitals, and much more.
The Home
Joseph A Biedenharn, the first bottler of Coca Cola, built his home in Monroe, Louisiana in 1914.The rooms of this beautiful home are exhibited as they were lived in, reflecting the well cultured taste of a traveling woman. Emy Lou, Josephs only daughter, was a very talented singer. Her love for music, nature, and family are expressed through the furnishings and accessories throughout the house. Among the antiques on display are European crystal chandeliers, Oriental sculptures, gold plated china, high tester beds, specially featuring a custom designed Princess and the Pea Bamboo bed.
The Bible Museum
After extensive renovations, the Bible Museum has reopened to the public as of April 22, 2010. It was a gift from her father, an 1848 facsimile of the Wycliffe Bible, that inspired Emy-Lou to begin her collection of Bibles, which resulted in the formation of the Bible Museum. The current exhibit features important American Bibles, the Guttenberg Leaf, and Russian Icons from the Daniel Bibb collection. Exhibits are periodically changed and rotated enabling guests to view the texts and artifacts that have influenced Western civilization.
The Garden
The ELsong garden is said to sing with a symphony of color as it tells a story throughout the seasons. The garden was designed by Emy-Lou herself upon her return from Europe. The garden was designed with a number of thematic settings including the Four Seasons, Oriental Gardens, and Musical Grotto. Several thousand flowering plants flourish under the stunning Wagnerian fountain and other sculptural embellishments, making this garden quite the experience.
The Coke Museum
Opened in 2008, the Coke museum features Coca Cola memorabilia and other historical items such as a Model T Coca Cola delivery truck. A stop at the Coke Museum will prove to be both entertaining and educational as visitors will see a demonstration of the original bottling process and more.
BIEDENHARN COCA-COLA MUSEUM Vicksburg Mississippi, Outdoors4adventure
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Joseph Augustus Biedenharn (December 13, 1866 – October 9, 1952) was an American businessman and confectioner credited in the summer of 1894 with having first bottled the soda fountain drink, Coca-Cola, at his wholesale candy company building in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As he expanded this business, he created a model of bottling-distributor franchises and built his company through this state, as well as Louisiana and Texas.
In 1913, he moved the manufacturing and bottling operations to Monroe, Louisiana, continuing to grow the business. With his son Malcolm and other entrepreneurs, in 1925 he bought a crop-dusting business. They added eighteen planes to the fleet, making it the largest private one in the world. They developed this business as Delta Air Lines, moving it later to Atlanta, Georgia. The Biedenharn family has had a philanthropic tradition in both Vicksburg and Monroe, making major contributions to historic, educational, recreational and charitable purposes.
Of German ancestry, Biedenharn was the oldest son of twelve children, born in Vicksburg to Herman Henry Biedenharn (1824–1924) and the former Louisa Wilhemine Lundberg (1844–1913). Three children died in 1874/75, eight sons and one daughter grew up. [1] [2] Both were immigrants with their families following the Revolutions of 1848. Biedenharn's father and uncle owned a two-story brick building in downtown Vicksburg, which housed Herman's shoe store on one side and his son Joseph's candy company on the other.
After getting established, Biedenharn married Annie (1870–1936) in 1889. They had a daughter, Emma Louise (Emy-Lou), and three sons, Malcolm S. Biedenharn, Henry A. Biedenharn, Sr., and Bernard W. Biedenharn. Malcolm worked closely with his father in the family business and its various expansions into other fields.
Though Coca-Cola had been invented in 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia by the pharmacist John S. Pemberton, it was not sold in bottles until Joseph Biedenharn developed the new procedure. He delivered the bottled drink to rural areas outside of Vicksburg, increasing the base of customers. He was not only the first bottler of the drinks but he established the new marketing technique of an independent network of franchise bottlers who distribute the drink. This has since grown to be worldwide in scope. Biedenharn had been advised by his father to go into the nickel business, meaning to offer soft drinks for five cents each. Prior to 1900, many people would hold on to a dime but spend a nickel for pleasure.
Subsequently, Biedenharn and his brothers Will, Harry, Lawrence, Herman, Ollie, and Albert, and sister Katy acquired franchises to bottle Coca-Cola in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The site at 1107 Washington Street in Vicksburg, where the first bottling occurred, was built in 1890. Today it is a museum dedicated to this brand and industry.[6] As their business grew, the Biedenharns bottled Coca-Cola in other locations in downtown Vicksburg until 1938, when they constructed a new Coca-Cola plant at 2133 Washington Street. The family sold the first building, and it was used for other commercial purposes.
In 1979, the Biedenharns regained ownership of the building. They renovated it and adapted it for use as a museum, using historic photographs and various exhibits to interpret the Coca-Cola heritage. The Biedenharns donated the building to the Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation.
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Afton Villa Gardens, St. Francisville, Louisiana
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Hodges Garden State Park - Florien, Louisiana
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Hodges Gardens
Hodges Gardens State Park is located approximately 15 miles south of Many on U.S. Highway 171.
Originally designed and opened to the public in 1956 by oil and gas businessman A.J. Hodges Sr., the site gardens consists of a variety of plants and flowers, from a formal rose garden to a collection of Japanese Red Maple trees.
Until 2006, Hodges Gardens was operated by a private non-profit foundation. That year, the Hodges Gardens Foundations donated the park, land, and gardens to the State of Louisiana. The park boasts over 700 acres of native and cultivated flora.
Water from a 225-acre lake, built in 1954, is pumped from the lake through the gardens to waterfalls, pools, a geyser, fountains and to the watering system before it is recycled back into the lake. At this site, nature-oriented visitors will experience a wide range of topography, from cultivated gardens featuring both native and imported foliage to rock formations that were exposed during logging and mining operations in the early 20th century.
Admission: $5/person; $4 for Seniors (62 and over) and free for children 3 and under.
Hours of Operation: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
Contact Information: 1000 Hodges Loop, Florien, LA 71429
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Clarion Inn & Suites Monroe - Monroe Hotels, Louisiana
Clarion Inn & Suites Monroe 2 Stars Hotel in Monroe, Louisiana Within US Travel Directory One of our bestsellers in Monroe! For business or pleasure, the Clarion Inn & Suites and Conference enter hotel is a full-service hotel in the heart of Monroe, LA.
The hotel is directly off Interstate 20 and just five minutes from the Monroe Regional Airport, University of Louisiana at Monroe and CenturyLink.
This Monroe, LA hotel is minutes from the Pecanland Mall and is close to the Biedenharn Museum, downtown area, the Monroe Civic Center, Antique Alley, the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo, Ike Hamilton Expo Center and more.
All spacious guest rooms and suites at this non-smoking hotel come with coffee makers, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards and cable television.
Some rooms come equipped with refrigerators, microwaves and sofa sleepers.
This Monroe, LA hotel features an indoor and outdoor pool, whirlpool, exercise center, recreation area, on-site restaurant and lounge.
Additional amenities include: Free airport transportation; Free wireless high-speed Internet access; Free weekday newspaperThe meeting, convention and exhibit space are some of the best in Northeast Louisiana and can accommodate any size event from five to 600 guests.
Business travelers will appreciate a business center with access to copy and fax services.
Guest laundry facilities are located on the premises.
Pets are welcome with a stay fee.
Clarion Inn & Suites Monroe - Monroe Hotels, Louisiana
Location in : 1051 Martin Luther King Jr Drive, LA 71203, Monroe, Louisiana
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Live United - Monroe LA
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