Historic Newton - Happy National Fig Newton Day! These cookies were indeed named after the City of Newton, MA. In the 1890s, the Frank A. Kennedy Biscuit factory in Cambridge named all
Boston Fun Facts - The Fig Newton is named after a suburb of Boston. That's right, those tasty fig paste-filled cookies you ate in elementary school are actually named after the town
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