Dublin, TX

When I looked up a place to stay and found a City RV park in Dublin, TX, I looked on their city website information to see if they indicated the price of the park and how you paid for it... they didn't, but I found out that this was the place where Dr Pepper was bottled for many years, and where it was still made with pure cane sugar.

So, since we stayed in the city RV park last night, we knew we needed to go by City Hall and pay, so decided we'd try to find a place to park in town and walk around a little.

We found a parking place big enough for Miss Doozie and the Jeep on a side street and walked to City Hall to pay for our overnight stay. Since we had not used the electricity, she only charged us $10. The normal fee is $15 for electric+water hookups. I would recommend the RV park (other than we're not sure whether any of the electric is reliable) - it is within the city park complex with walking paths and baseball field, etc.

As we were walking to the Dr Pepper museum/store, we saw a Ben Hogan Museum. We didn't stop, but I had read on the website that this was his boyhood home.

A sign on the side of a building - with a painted scaffolding and guy painting on the left side, and a rickety bench and painted guy reading the newspaper on a bench on the right side. Dwayne is looking over the newspaper and balancing gingerly on the rickety bench.

Dublin Bottling Works - Site of the oldest Dr Pepper Bottling Plant in the World! Established 1891.

Drink Dr Pepper the year round!

"Old Doc's Soda Shop"

Sam Houston Prim (1863-1946) arrived in Dublin in 1891 with $680 worth of bottling equipment. Purchasing property at the southeast corner of Patrick and Elm Streets to house his bottling works, Prim bottled Dr Pepper, along with other products. Under an informal agreement until 1925, when he formally chose as a Dr Pepper distribution territory a 44-mile radius that centered on Dublin - an area that remains as the company's territory today. At the time of Prim's death, Dr Pepper executives noted he had bottled the soft drink longer than any other individual. The company has remained in operation since that time, making it the oldest Dr Pepper Bottler in the world.

 The sign's date is 2009. Other information indicated that they stopped bottling Dr Pepper here in 2012.

A statue of Prim (I guess) in front of the bottling works. I was asking for a bottle of Dr Pepper but he gave it to the other little girl instead....

There are still soda's bottled here, just not Dr Pepper.

You could purchase a case of sodas for $24 if all the same kind, or $30 for a mixed case.

Drink Dr Pepper at Ten, Two, & Four - Good for Life!

There are a few bottles of the last bottling of Dr Pepper available for sale (they are marked "not for consumption"). $4.99/bottle

Dublin Dr Pepper was sweetened with Texas Imperial Cane Sugar

 We enjoyed our visit to Dublin, and then drove on to Whitney, TX.

We are settled in at the Lake Whitney Thousand Trails. The sites are rather tight with cedar trees, but we managed to "thread" Miss Doozie in, and there is even enough room for the Jee-rage to the side.

Miss Kitty approved of the spot - there are some nice places to roll and a lot of neat things to sniff.