Flip to Six boys gather around a school truck at the Hershey Industrial School, Hershey, PA, circa 1923.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Hershey Community Archives
In 1909, Milton and Catherine "Kitty" Hershey founded the Industrial School for orphaned boys on the farm where Hershey had been born. "It was Kitty's idea," Hershey always said. When Kitty was unable to bear children, the Hersheys decided to create a boarding school to give orphaned boys the kind of stable and dependable upbringing Milton Hershey never had.
