Lancaster Caramel Company is sold for $1 million to the American Caramel Company. The sale is a combination of cash and stock. M.S. Hershey retains the chocolate manufacturing machinery and the right to manufacture chocolate.
Hershey Chocolate Company (Lancaster) reports chocolate sales of $622,000. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1901.]
Hershey Chocolate Company Soda Fountain and Candy Store opens at 1020 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Specific dates are unknown. The store opened in the year 1901 and closed in the year 1904.]
M.S. Hershey purchases siding and quarry in Derry Church area.
Surveying crews begin work in Derry Church area.
A charter is granted to Hummelstown-Campbelltown Street Railway. It is incorporated as a company on March 13, 1913.
Ground is broken for chocolate factory on a six acre tract of land.
Dauphin County is established.
Isaac Hershey purchases four tracts of land in Dauphin County.
Isaac and Anna Hershey build the Homestead. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in the year 1826.]
The First Evangelical United Brethren Church is established in Derry Township. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in the year 1843.]
Spring Creek Church of the Brethren congregation is established in Derry Township as an outgrowth of the Swatara Church of the Brethren (month approximate). A meeting house or "Love Feast" building (current sanctuary) is constructed adjacent to the cemetery. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in October 1868.]
Henry H. Hershey and Veronica “Fanny” B. Snavely, parents of Milton S. Hershey, are married. The marriage is performed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The couple takes up residence in the Homestead, then owned by Jacob Hershey, Henry’s father.
Birthdate of Milton S. Hershey. He is born at the Homestead under the supervision of Dr. Thomas G. Fox, attending physician.
Henry Hershey purchases a home on East Derry Road, but sells it August 23, 1860.
Henry Hershey moves his family to a farm in Nine Points, Lancaster County, east of Lancaster City, Pennsylvania. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in the year 1866.]
Milton Hershey ends his formal education and is apprenticed to Samuel Ernst, printer, in Gap, Pennsylvania. Ernst publishes and prints a German-English newspaper, Der Waffenlose Waechter (The Weaponless Watchman). [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in September 1871.]
Milton Hershey is fired by Samuel Ernst. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in December 1871.]
Milton Hershey establishes his first business venture manufacturing and selling candy at 935 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1876.]
William Lebkicher begins his long association with Milton Hershey. Mr. Lebkicher is employed as a bookkeeper and all-around man at the Spring Garden Street Shop. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1880.]
Milton Hershey moves his confectionery shop to 1217-25 Beech Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1881.]
Milton Hershey is granted his first patent for a candy display case.
Milton Hershey’s Philadelphia business closes. He travels to Morristown, New Jersey, Denver, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois and works at his trade.
Milton Hershey works at his trade in Chicago, Illinois. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1882.]
Milton Hershey begins his second business venture in New York City, New York. His business is located at 6th Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, next door to the Hippodrome Theatre and Chinese Laundry. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1883.]
Milton Hershey returns to Church Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania after financial difficulties in New York City, New York. He begins his third confectionery business which will be called the Lancaster Caramel Company. He manufactures caramels under the trademark "Crystal A" (Lotuses, Paradox, Coconut Ices). [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1886.]
Milton Hershey purchases his first property in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is the building that houses his caramel factory on Church Street. [Specific date is unknown. Event occurred in 1891.]