Consumer History | Hershey — The Factory That Named Chocolate Avenue
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Consumer History | Hershey — The Factory That Named Chocolate Avenue
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People treat Hershey as a theme park and a Kiss-shaped lamp that arrived already named after a bar.
The factory that named the town started here, on Chocolate Avenue in Derry Township, when Milton S. Hershey broke ground in 1903 and opened the plant in 1905.
He had sold the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1900 for $1 million after seeing chocolate machinery at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
He bought dairy land near his birthplace so milk could walk to the kettles.
The Hershey Chocolate Company had been set up as a caramel subsidiary in 1894. The first Hershey bar was on sale by 1900.
Houses, a trolley, churches and a school grew around the stacks. Hershey's Kisses followed in 1907.
The firm incorporated in 1908 and listed, after a 1927 reorganization, as the Hershey Chocolate Corporation.
The original factory at 19 East Chocolate Avenue closed in 2012 and was largely demolished.
The Community Center Building he put up for the workers still stands at 2 Chocolate Avenue. The West Hershey plant now makes the bars.
The park came later. The dairy field came first.
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