History

"The Baker Chocolate Company, famous for producing Baker's Chocolate, is the oldest producer of chocolate in the United States. In 1765 Dr. James Baker and John Hannon founded the company, which operated out of the Dorchester Lower Mills neighborhood in Boston. Using cocoa beans they’d brought back from the West  Indies, the pair built their chocolate empire from the ground up – an empire still going strong today.[30] [31] White chocolate was first introduced to the U.S. in 1946 by Frederick E. Hebert of  Hebert Candies in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, near Boston, after he had tasted "white coat" candies while traveling in Europe."[32] [31] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate