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Whitman, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman invented the chocolate chip cookie in 1938. It was a wonderful accident. The owner of "Toll House Inn" ran out of baking chocolate, Ruth added in chocolate pieces. She thought they would melt and create chocolate cookies, but they did not. The result was chocolate chip, also known as "Toll House" cookies.
Whitman includes: Washington Street, Auburnville, and Northville.
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1670 - Whitman is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1875 - Whitman is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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Whitman Massachusetts, 1890
Whitman is a lively manufacturing town of small area in the northwestern section of Plymouth County, 21 miles south of Boston on the Abington and Plymouth Branch of the Old Colony Railroad. The post-offices are Whitman (village) and South Abington Station. Auburnville is the other village. The town is bounded on the north by Abington, on the east by Rockland and Hanson, on the south by East Bridgewater, on the southwest by the same, and on the west by Brockton. The assessed area is 4,303 acres.
There is an elevation at the northwest and two considerable hills in the northeast. There is a marsh at the north and another at the south on the stream that flows from Abington through the midst of the town. Hobart Pond, near the centre, is a fine sheet of water one half mile in length by one fourth in width. The town is well clothed in forests of pine, oak and birch, of which there are 2,807 acres. Elm, maple and chestnut trees, some very large, adorn the village streets, and shade many an ... Read MORE...
1892 - Silver Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Peterson of Harvard street, Whitman, Mass., celebrated their silver anniversary last evening, about eleven hundred guests being present. They were the recipients of many beautiful gifts. Mr. Peterson represented his district in the Legislature two terms and is at present a member of the School Board of Whitman.
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
May 26, 1892
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1895 - Whitman
Whit'man, a post-town of Plymouth co., Mass., 21 miles by rail S. of Boston. It has 6 churches, 3 national banks, a savings-bank, a high school, graded schools, a large boot- and shoe-factory, tack-factories, and 2 newspaper offices. Pop. in 1890, 4441.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
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1906
Whitman, a banking post-village of Plymouth co., Mass., 21 miles S. of Boston, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. It has manufactures of boots and shoes, leather-board, shoe-shanks, tacks, etc. Pop. in 1890, 4441; in 1900, about 4800.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
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1930 - First Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ruth Wakefield invented the first chocolate chip cookie at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Ma. by adding cut up pieces of chocolate to her butter drop cookies.
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