Story+of+Domingo+Ghirardelli

 Domenico Ghirardelli was born in Italy the year 1817. Domenico made chocolate as a kid. He moved to Uruguay to be part of the South American Chocolate trade. While living in Peru, he met an American James lick who brought 600 pounds of Ghiradelli chocolate with him to San Francisco. Domenico changed his name to the Spanish version "Domingo:. Domingo came to SF during the 1849 Gold Rush making his fortune by selling chocolate.

 Here is a picture of Domingo Ghirardelli that we took a photo of. It comes from a plaque located in the middle of the pathway near the fountain at Ghirardelli Square.

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