Hershey Plant Sets Records in 1916 Expansion
Hershey Chocolate Company reports record shipments in October 1916 with 414 carloads via the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and thousands more by express and parcel post. The firm has added five buildings, doubled power, and built a $100,000 filtration plant for mountain water, plus a 60 000 pound daily sugar refinery, all supporting a thriving factory town and high worker health and morale.
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Express and
Hershey Chocolate Company
America
Europe
Hershey Chocolate
Blue Ridge Mountains
Manada Valley
Manada Creek
Minoss
Great Social Center Building Will Be Started in the Spring
Hershey announces plans for a vast Social Center or Community Building in Hershey. Architect C Emlen Urban describes a four to five story Italian Renaissance style complex with 360 by 240 foot façades, a 2000 seat theatre, extensive classrooms, dormitories, hospital floor, and a formal garden with pool.
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Urban
M. S. Hershey
Trust Company
Hershey Press
Highland Park
C. Emlen Urban
Chocolata Avenue
Cocoa Avenue
Hea
Geymnasium
Likawiko Amall Gymnasium
Landscape Ideals Shape Hershey's Open Space Vision
A Philadelphia observer praises Hershey's development plan noting broad shade lined avenues, well kept lawns, and thoughtful plantings around public buildings. The park system aims to blend attractions with surroundings, adding Highland Park improvements and new vistas while planning an 18 hole golf course and a cemetery to the east, all reflecting the Punch behind the Hershey Idea.
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Hershey Park
Highland Park
Hershey
Pennsylvania
Alte
Highland — Park
Hershey Improvement Company maps 1916 town growth plans
Hershey Improvement Company outlines 1916 building program in Hershey featuring the Printery building on Chocolate Avenue and Park Road. Plans include reinforced concrete structures with terra cotta facades, new printery and laundry, and numerous private dwellings totaling twenty two currently built. Road improvements include an asphalt macadam boulevard from the Philadelphia and Reading bridge to Highland Park drive.
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Hershey Improvement Company
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M. 8
Cocoa Avenue
Areba Street
Union Deposit Road
Spring Creek Avenue
Trinidad Avenue
Homestead Avenue
Tarshey
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Reading Bridge
Round Barn
Highland Park Drive
Harshey Improvement Company
Thaltershey
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