Credit: Hershey Community Archive
In the early 1900s, Milton Hershey created a company town that enthusiastic promoters heralded as a working man's utopia. Believing that success in business and service to his fellow man went hand in hand, Hershey built and subsidized his town's public buildings, department store, sports facilities, schools, hotel, medical clinic, and park with the largest free private zoo in America. He also paid his workers well, who in turn spent their money in the town that he had built and controlled.
