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Hershey in 1914 The upbuilding of a model town
Hershey in 1914 reports record growth in sales and overseas markets, a 40 percent plant expansion, and a year of constant construction. It details factory upgrades, new power and water systems, welfare facilities, schooling, store expansion, banking gains, street improvements, park activity, and massive farm modernization driving the town’s rapid rise.
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Hershey
America
Hershey Chocolate Company
United States
Canada
Europe
Chemical Laboratory
Hershey Improvement Company
M.s.hershey Consolidated Public School
Hershey Trust Company
East Granada Street
Granada Avenue
Caracas Avenue
Cocoa Avenue
Areba Street
Hershey Central Theater
Hershey Store Company
Prospect Heights
Sand Beach
Chocolate Company
West End
Horseshoe Turnpike
Edgemere
Foster
Weizell
Alphonse
Corliss
Robert Wetherill Company
Chester
D. C
A. C
Croker Wheeler Company
Ampere
N. J
C. H. Wheeler Company
Philadelphia
Cochrane
Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Company
Plainville
Conn
Frick Company
Waynesboro
Diesel Engine Company of
St Louis
York Manufacturing Company
Elizabethtown and
Deodate
Industrial School
Elizabethtown
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Park
Lebanon
Hershey Company
Hershey 64
Pennsylvania
Chocolate and
Cocoa Avenues
Children’s Savings Fund
Hershey Industrial School
Chocolate
Areba
Trinidad Avenue
Homestead Avenue
Round Barn
Hill
Derry Church
Gingrich School
Board of Township Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
State Highway Department
Derry Township
Swatara Station
Union
Park Hershey Park
Hershey Park
Harrisburg Hospital
M. L. Hershey
War Children of
C. V. Glynn
Belgian Relief Came Mr. M. S. Hershey
Red Cross
Librar
Hershey’ Central Theater
Dauphin County
Rockridge
Gingrich
Kreider
A. G. Bompardner
Sattaauhn
Baltz
Ulrich
Eaitz
Kram
Grant Rompardnor