50 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 
comparatively small, local concern to the position of the leading 
industrial enterprise of its kind in the world. 
In 1895 the business was organized as a corporation under the 
general laws of Massachusetts; and in 1898 a special charter was 
granted by the General Court. 
The old stone mill which was erected in 1849, on the site long occu- 
pied by the small building shown in the engraving of 1822, has given 
place to an imposing structure of brick and stone, known as Mill No. 5. 
The plant now comprises six mills on the Dorchester and Milton sides 
of the Neponset River, containing 500,000 square feet of floor space — 
about eleven and one half acres. 
It is an interesting fact that on the spot where 
the industry was first started, more than a cen- 
tury and a quarter ago, the business has con- 
tinued and attained the highest development. 
From the little wooden mill, 
‘ By the rude bridge that arched the 
flood,’’ 
NEPONSET RIVER FALLS 
