Boston becomes the candy manufacturing center of the U.S.

The city was home to companies that included the New England Confectionary Company, William F. Schrafft & Sons, and the Walker Baker Chocolate Company, which had developed pioneering manufacturing technology. According to author and candy chronicler Mimi Graney, “Boston was officially Candyland, USA, the capital of American confectionery. It would remain that way until after World War I.”