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Hershey, Pennsylvania
Milton Hershey broke ground for his chocolate factory in Derry Church, Pennsylvania, in 1903. This rural area held just 700 residents when the first shovel hit dirt. The factory transformed everything.
Smokestacks rose where farm fields once stretched. Production lines started churning out chocolate bars in 1905. The population swelled to 1,500 by 1920. Homes and shops replaced cornfields as workers and their families settled in what became known simply as Hershey…