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It depends on which "Hershey" you refer to. Milton Hershey, founder of the great chocolate empire, first developed the land that would be known as "Hershey, PA" in 1900. The Hershey Chocolate manufacturing facility was first built in 1903. Hershey Park (now Hersheypark) first opened in 1905, and The Hershey Industrial School for Orphan Boys (now known as the Milton S. Hershey school) was founded in 1909. Interestingly enough, the "town" of Hershey is not a town at all, but rather a "census deisgnated place" within Derry Township, PA that has never been incorporated into its own municipality.

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