HISTORY

The first candy on a stick, according to the National Confectionary Association, was probably created by cavemen who maintained beehives and collected honey by stick.
Not wanting to waste the sweet residue, they, most likely, licked the utensil and thus the first unintentional lollipop, or, candy on a stick, was born.

Lollipops (sometimes spelled lollypops) show up in novels by Charles Dickens and other 19th century writers.
Back then, the word referred to sweet lozenges without a stick.
Lollipops as we know them today began to appear in the United States right before the Civil War; small bits of sugar candy were put on the ends of pencils for children to nibble on.