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'{{other uses|Toll house (disambiguation)}} [[Image:WhitmanMA_TollHouseSign.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The restored sign of the Toll House Inn, with a commemorative plaque underneath]] The '''Toll House Inn''' of [[Whitman, Massachusetts]] was established in 1930 by Kenneth and [[Ruth Graves Wakefield]]. Toll House [[chocolate chip cookie]]s are named after the inn. ==History== Contrary to its name and the sign, which still stands despite the building having burned down in 1984, the site was never a [[toll house]], and it was built in 1817, not 1709. The use of "toll house" and "1709" was a marketing strategy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Classic cookie creators |publisher=SS living |newspaper=South Shore Living |date=Nov 2011 |url=http://www.ssliving.com/South-Shore-Living/November-2011/Classic-Cookie-Creators/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005012717/http://www.ssliving.com/South-Shore-Living/November-2011/Classic-Cookie-Creators/ |archivedate=2013-10-05 }}.</ref> Ruth Wakefield cooked all the food served and soon gained local fame for her [[dessert]]s. In 1936, while adapting her butter drop dough cookie [[recipe]], she [[inventor|invented]] the first [[chocolate chip cookie]] using a bar of [[semi-sweet chocolate]] made by [[Nestlé]].<ref name="ideafinder">{{cite web | website= Idea finder | url= http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/tollhouse.htm |title=Toll House Cookie History – Invention of Toll House Cookies|accessdate= 2009-07-30}}</ref><ref name= "toll_house_cafe">{{cite web | website= Very Best Baking | url= https://www.verybestbaking.com/articles/nestle-toll-house-story |title=The Nestlé Toll House Story |accessdate= 2015-09-21}}</ref><ref name="inventor">{{cite web|url= http://www.women-inventors.com/Ruth-Wakefield.asp |title= Ruth Wakefield: Chocolate Chip Cookie Inventor|accessdate= 2009-07-30|website=Women Inventors}}</ref><ref name= "mit"/> The new dessert soon became very popular. Wakefield contacted Nestlé and they struck a deal: the company would print her recipe on the cover of all their semi-sweet chocolate bars, and she would get a lifetime supply of chocolate. Nestlé began marketing chocolate chips to be used especially for [[cookies]].{{CN|date=November 2020}} Wakefield wrote a [[cookbook]], ''Toll House Tried and True Recipes'', that went through 39 printings.<ref name= "mit">{{cite web |url= http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/wakefield.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030403224649/http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/wakefield.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 2003-04-03|title=Inventor of the Week Archive: Chocolate Chip Cookie |accessdate= 2009-08-01|website=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}</ref> Wakefield died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down from a fire that started in the kitchen on [[New Year's Eve]] 1984.<ref name="stack1985">{{cite news| last = Stack | first = James | date = January 6, 1985 | title = A landmark burns | newspaper = [[The Boston Globe]]}}.</ref> The inn was not rebuilt. The site, at 362 Bedford Street, is marked with a historical marker, and that land is now home to a [[Wendy's]] restaurant and [[Walgreens]] pharmacy. Although there are many manufacturers of chocolate chips today, Nestlé still publishes Wakefield's recipe on the back of each package of Toll House Morsels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/185/Nestle-Toll-House-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies|title=Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies - Recipe File |website= Cooking For Engineersaccess-date=2018-05-26}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{coord|42.0709|N|70.94825|W|type:landmark_scale:500|display=title}} [[Category:History of Massachusetts]] [[Category:Hotels established in 1930]] [[Category:Cookies]] [[Category:Defunct restaurants in the United States]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Plymouth County, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Whitman, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Chocolate]]'