Hershey’s Chocolate World - the sweetest place on earth - Hershey, Pennsylvania. The story of Hershey’s spans nearly a century and a half of industrial and social change. It was in the year 1894 that candy manufacturer Milton Hershey made the decision to try adding chocolate coating to his caramels. Calling this new enterprise the Hershey Chocolate Company, he located it near the area he had been born, amid the rolling farmland of Derry Township, PA. By the summer of 1905, with the milk from nearby dairy farms and the spirit of hard-working local people, his new factory started turning out delicious milk chocolate. Raised in rural central Pennsylvania, Milton Hershey would become also known for his philanthropy and open-hearted generosity which still touches the lives of thousands. As early as 1909, Hershey and his wife Catherine established the Hershey Industrial School, a school for orphan boys we know today as the Milton Hershey School. The grounds and the building are well maintained and offered many attractions. There is a free ride inside that explains the process of making chocolate. There is also several other activities you can pay for including make your own candy bar, 4D theatre, and trolley works.There is a lot to do at Hershey Chocolate World and it is fun learning where chocolate came from and how it is made. Also, you can make your own chocolate in the factory.
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