EARLY USE OF COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 33 
among others Pope, in his ‘‘ Rape of the Lock,’’ alludes to it; the 
negligent spirit, fixed like Ixion, — 
‘‘ In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, 
And tremble at the sea that froths below.”’ 
Chocolate was first manufactured in this country in 1765, in a mill 
on the Dorchester side of the Neponset River, at a point long known 
as Milton Lower Mills. Fifteen years later the plant came into the 
possession of Dr. James Baker, and the small beginning then made 
of a new industry has developed into the world-famous manufactur- 
ing establishment known as Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., of which some 
account is given farther on. 
MILTON LOWER MILLS IN 1822 — FROM MODEL. WALTER BAKER & CO.'S 
MILL ON THE RIGHT 
The first notice of the sale of cocoa and chocolate in this country 
appears in the Boston Gazette and Country): Journal of March 12, 
1770, as follows :— i 
“TO BE SOLD BY 
JOHN BAKER 
At his Store in Back Street a few Bags of 
the best Cocoa; also choice Chocolate by 
the Hundred or Smaller Quantity.” 
