In 1730, chocolate manufacturing becomes a mass production when a mechanical cocoa grinding process is introduced.
Chocolate
production in the United States grew faster than anywhere else in the
world. The first wholly machine-made chocolate was produced in
Barcelona, Spain in 1780.
It was during
pre-revolutionary New England – 1765 the first chocolate factory was
established in America. It was first manufactured in 1765 by Irish-born
chocolatier John Hannon and physician James Baker. They opened the first
chocolate factory at Milton Lower Mills, near Dorchester,
Massachusetts.
John Hanan brought the cocoa beans from
the West Indies, thinking they might be used in medicine. In 1780 James
Baker produced chocolate made soluble by a reduced cocoa butter content,
a product called baker’s chocolate.
James Baker’s
descendent Walter Baker hired an employee named Samuel German, who
developed a sweet chocolate; which was added to the Baker’s line under
Germans name.
In the 1900s, Milton S. Hershey worked
zealously at preparing recipe that would compete with the Swiss until he
finally came out with a formula which mixed the right combination of
sugar and cocoa.
This was amazingly popular with the public that he began to mass produce and distribute chocolate candy very successfully.
John Hannon and James Baker opened the first chocolate factory in United States
