Flip to Residences on the north side of Elm Avenue looking from Ridge Avenue west, Hershey PA, 1932.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Hershey Community Archives
In 1909, Milton Hershey founded the Hershey Industrial School, a residential school for orphaned boys that he modeled on Girard College in Philadelphia. Hershey, who had no children of his own, later committed the bulk of his personal fortune and his company's profits to this enterprise. Today, the Milton Hershey School has one of the largest endowments of any school in the United States.
