Community Building is dedicated. It is located on the site of former McKinley School/Hershey Central Theater.
Not-So-Sweet Bar introduced. Discontinued November 16, 1937 when replaced by Bitter-Sweet bar.
Hotel Hershey Golf Course opens.
Hotel Hershey Highlights begins publication. Discontinued June 17, 1950.
Aero Chocolate Bar introduced. Bar is manufactured under license of British confectionery firm, Rowntree’s. Discontinued May 15, 1939.
Hershey Industrial School Junior-Senior High School is dedicated. Constructed November 1932-September 1934.
Chocolate manufacturing machines purchased in 1893 are retired. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1935.]
M.S. Hershey presents each of the five churches in Hershey with a gift of $20,000. The five churches are: Derry Presbyterian, Spring Creek Church of the Brethren, First Evangelical United Brethren (today First United Methodist), Holy Trinity Lutheran, and St. Joan of Arc Catholic.
Hershey Department Store moves to Northwest corner of Chocolate Avenue and Park Drive to occupy the Hershey Press Building. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1920.]
The M.S. Hershey Junior-Senior High School is dedicated. It was built and donated by Milton S. Hershey.
Charter issued to the Hershey National Bank. It opens for business on May 1 in the Hershey Trust Company Building.
Mr. Goodbar introduced.
Forty head of pure-bred Holstein cattle are sent to Cuba. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1926.]
Cocoa Syrup for commercial use is introduced. Forerunner of Hershey’s Syrup (for home use, introduced April 15, 1928).
Cornerstone laid for the Fanny B. Hershey Memorial Building, a new elementary school for Hershey Industrial School boys. (Ground breaking held on April 1, 1926)
Last edition of the Hershey Press.
Hershey Chocolate Company reorganized as the Hershey Chocolate Corporation. Incorporated in the State of Delaware. Hershey Estates established to handle all "non-chocolate business". [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in October 1927.]
Dedication of Fanny B. Hershey Memorial Building, Grades K through 8.
Hershey Estates is incorporated. (William F.R. Murrie, President.) Its offices are located on the second floor of the Hershey Trust Company Building.
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company moves to new location on West Caracas Avenue. Land was donated by Milton Hershey.
Sprigs, chocolate chips for commerical use, introduced. (Forerunner of Hershey’s Chocolate Chips for home use, introduced in 1941 as Dainties.)
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company Fire Hall is dedicated.
Quikmix introduced.
First Evangelical United Brethren (now United Methodist) Church dedicates its new church building. Located on the corner of West Chocolate Avenue and Linden Road.
Hershey Estates Dairy opens. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in November 1929.]
M.S. Hershey organizes the Hershey Country Club and offers High Point mansion as the Club House. A golf course designed by noted golf course architect Maurice McCarthy is built surrounding the clubhouse. Mr. Hershey maintains a two-room apartment on the second floor.
First hockey game in the Convention Hall/Ice Palace.
First Hershey Industrial School Alumni banquet held in the Hershey Inn Walnut Room for those boys who had graduated from High School or completed their education and left school at age 18.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, located on Cocoa Avenue, is dedicated. The first worship service was held on July 19, 1914.
M.S. Hershey Consolidated School of Derry Township, located on first block of East Granada Avenue, is dedicated. Fifteen one-room schools are consolidated in new school.
Hershey Central Theater, located in the McKinley School Building, opens. Offers both movies and vaudeville performances. Seats 700
First Community Christmas Tree observation is held.
Entire trolley system is merged into the Hershey Transit Company. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1915.]
Death of Catherine Hershey. She dies in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. She is 43 years old.
Birth of Catherine Sweeney (wife of Milton Hershey). Died on March 25, 1915.
Introduction of Hershey’s Chewing Gum, “Easy Chew”, 6 sticks for 5 cents. Discontinued October 1, 1924.
Convention Hall is dedicated. The Hall has a seating capacity of 6,000; presents leading nationally known artists.
Information Bureau opens at McKinley Building (Central Theater). Bureau is open 6 days a week, provides information about the town and coordinates requests for factory tours.
Modern water treatment plant is constructed. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1916.]
Milton Hershey acquires land in Cuba and establishes Central Hershey.
Hershey Zoo formally opens. It is the largest free private zoo in America. A smaller zoological garden was opened to the public as early as 1910.
Factory begins using mechanical Kiss wrapping machine. Kisses are now wrapped with trademarked plume. Prior to this, Kisses were hand-wrapped, with an enclosed square of tissue.
The Tea House, on East Chocolate Avenue, opens.
Hershey Cuban Railway is completed. It connects Central Hershey with Havana to the west and Matanzas to the east.
Modern sewage disposal system is constructed. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1924.]
Hershey Hospital opens. It is located in the former Gingrich home on East Chocolate Avenue, next to Fanny Hershey’s home. The new hospital has 10 beds, an operating room and an x-ray room. This hospital replaces the Industrial School and factory infirmaries. Fanny Hershey’s home serves as a nurse’s residence.
Pennsylvania State Police Training School opens. It is located on Cocoa Avenue near the present location of Cocoa Plaza.
American Legion Women’s Auxiliary is organized.
First issue of Hershey Press. It is published until December 30, 1926. (First editor: C.S. Gee.)
Milton S. and Catherine Hershey sign the Deed of Trust to establish the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys. The Trust is initially endowed with 486 acres of farmland.
Hershey Park Conservatory (greenhouse) opens. It is Hershey’s second conservatory. The first was the greenhouse by High Point Mansion. It is open to visitors year round.
Bell Telephone Exchange opens in Hershey. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in August 1910.]
Hershey Store Company (Hershey Department Store) opens for business on the Southwest corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues. Hershey Inn occupies the second floor. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in September 1910.]
The first four boys are enrolled at the Hershey Industrial School: Nelson A. Wagner, Irvin G. Wagner, Jacob A. Weber, and Guy G. Weber.
Hershey Cafe, located in the original Trolley Car Barn, opens serving Chocolate Company employees. Cafe opens to the general public in May, 1911.
Factory floor space increased to 18 acres. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1911.]
Y.W.C.A. organizes. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in February 1911.]
Lebanon-Campbelltown Street Railway Company Incorporated. Trolley line begins operation on February 9, 1913.
Hershey Industrial School opens Kinderhaus, a kindergarten. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1912.]
Hershey Electric Company is incorporated.
New carrousel begins operating in Hershey Park. Built by William Dentzel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Carrousel has 52 animals and 2 chariots. The carrousel is relocated to a spot alongside Spring Creek.
Hershey Public Library begins under a joint committee of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. The Library is located in the Reading Room of the Y.M.C.A. (the Cocoa House).
Y.W.C.A. moves into its new home (future Park View Apartments, now Hershey Zoo parking lot).
Hershey Water Company receives charter.
The Hershey Men’s Club replaces the Y.M.C.A. The Club becomes a self-governing organization in October, 1914 and is located in the Cocoa House.
The Derry Township School District Alumni Association holds first annual banquet.
Hershey Trust Company occupies new home on the Northwest corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues (9 West Chocolate Avenue).
Hershey Post Office moves into the Cocoa House and occupies rooms vacated by the Hershey Trust Company.
First telephone line is installed in Derry Church/Hershey. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in July 1903.]
Land is designated for future park [Hershey Park].
Surveys made for “Mansion” and adjacent area. Building contract for the “Mansion” signed July 13, 1905. Construction starts April 7, 1906.
Trolley has its first run between Hummelstown and Palmyra. Regular service begins on October 28, 1904.
Hershey Park Dance Hall, forerunner of the Ballroom, opens.[Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1905.]
“Cocoa House” opens on the Northeast corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues (One Chocolate Avenue). The first floor houses Hershey Trust Company, Post Office and General Store. The second floor contains boarding rooms.
McKinley School is built on the Southeast corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues. (site of 14 East Chocolate Avenue). M.S. Hershey donates land and contributes $500 to the cost of construction.[Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1905.]
Hershey Trust Company receives its charter.
Hershey Chocolate Factory building is completed. Chocolate manufacturing machinery is brought from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and installed. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in June 1905.]
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company is organized.
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company receives charter. The charter includes the names of the original 73 members, including Milton Hershey.
The Homestead serves as the residence for Milton and Catherine Hershey until High Point is completed in 1908. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1905.]
Hershey Park Theater opens. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1906.]
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company moves into new building located on Chocolate Avenue between the Cocoa House and the Hershey Chocolate Factory.
Hershey Post Office, located in the Fire Company Building, delivers its first mail. Ezra Hershey is the first postmaster.
Hershey Chocolate Company begins manufacturing Hershey’s Kisses.
Milton and Catherine Hershey move to High Point Mansion. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1908.]
Hershey Laundry opens for business. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1908.]
Hershey Park constructs its first Bandstand. It is a small rustic structure. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1909.]
John E. Snyder begins his association with M.S. Hershey. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1891.]
Milton Hershey attends the World’s Columbian-Exposition in Chicago, Illinois and purchases German chocolate making machinery which he sees on exhibit. The machinery was exhibited by J.M. Lehmann of Dresden, Germany. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1893.]
The Lancaster Caramel Company is incorporated. Hershey Chocolate Company is named as a subsidiary of the Caramel Company.
Hershey Chocolate Company begins producing baking chocolate, cocoa and sweet chocolate coatings for caramels.
Milton Hershey’s aunt, Martha (Aunt Mattie) Snavely, dies. She provided M.S. Hershey financial and other help in his business ventures. (Born 1832)
William F.R. Murrie begins working for Hershey Chocolate Company. Coming from Weaver and Costello, a candy manufacturer in Pittsburgh. He began as a salesman, but is quickly assigned supervisory duties. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1895.]
Hershey Chocolate is sold commercially. (The date of earliest sales record.)
The Homestead becomes the property of M.S. Hershey. It was purchased at a public sale for $10,310.69.
Henry Hershey returns from Colorado to live at the Homestead.[Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1898.]
M.S. Hershey and Catherine Sweeney are married in the rectory of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, New York. They reside at 222 South Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The trademark design, the Cocoa Bean Baby is adopted and used until 1968 when company reorganizes as Hershey Foods Corporation.
John E. Snyder begins negotiations for sale of Lancaster Caramel Company. He continues as chief counsel for M.S. Hershey and his business until his death in 1934. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1899.]
Hershey Chocolate Company introduces the automobile to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for business purposes. The automobile is a Riker Electric.