Hershey's Chocolate World

Today we traveled about 12 miles over to Hershey, Pennsylvania and viewed all the surrounding attractions. The Hershey Hotel, The Hershey Factory with it's smokestacks, Hershey Theme Park with all of it's rides and a stop at Hershey's Chocolate World!

We had a wonderful time shopping here!!

A Chocaholic's dream place to shop

the smokestack replicas of the old factory

Sugar free???

or with sugar???

Wow!!

Wow Wow Wow!!

A way to tour the facilities

the Hershey Hotel

Hershey History is very interesting, I discovered when I searched it out on the internet:
Until April, 2005, the largest chocolate manufacturerin North America was known as the Hershey Foods Corporation. It's headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania which is also home to Hershey's Chocolate World. It was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894. Hershey's products are sold in about sixty countries worldwide.
After completing an apprenticeship to a confectioner in 1873, Milton Snavely Hershey founded a candy shop in Philadelphia, which failed six years later. After trying unsuccessfully to manufacturer candy in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, whose use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful. In 1900, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1 million (equal to $27,936,000 today) and began to concentrate on chocolate manufacturing. In 1903, Hershey began construction of a chocolate plant in his home town, Derry Church, Pa. which later became Hershey, Pennsylvania. This proved to be successful and grew rapidly.
In 1896, he built a milk processing plant so he could create and refine a recipe for milk chocolate candies.
In 1907, the "Hershey's Kiss" was introduced.
In 1917, Harry Burnett Reese worked at Hershey as a dairyman for Hershey Farms. In 1921, he went to work at the factory. By 1925, he had developed an assortment of candies that he was able to sell  to department stores in Lancaster advertised "made in Hershey". In 1926, he built his own factory and then in 1941 with wartime rationing of sugar, Reese focused all his production resources on his own confectionery masterpiece, the peanut butter cup, which required less sugar than most confections of the time. In 1956, Reese died leaving the company to his six sons. In June, 1963, the Hershey Chocolate Corporation acquired Reese's company for $23.3 million at a time when Reese's roles were  $14 million annually.

After shopping for chocolate, we stopped at the CampbellTown Cafe for our MOD. We both enjoyed the best French Onion soup that we had ever eaten!!

We stopped because the parking lot was full! 

A quaint small great restaurant

       After our MOD, we stopped at a dairy near the TT entrance and bought two dozen eggs. We stopped in the driveway adn Bruce walked onto the back porch and paid $1.30/for each dozen adn got the egges out of the refrigerator. Can you believe such an honor system!!!!! This was the view I had while waiting for him.

their sign said that they had rams,lambs and ewes
also eggs for sell



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