Visit the Hershey Story Museum in Hershey, PA

At The Hershey Story, you’ll find many resources on the history of Milton Hershey, the town, and the company.

Hershey Community Archives website offers a wealth of information about Milton Hershey and the history and development of the Hershey, PA community. In addition to numerous essays about Hershey businesses, organizations, people and events, the website includes information about the collections and how to access them, and provides access to online databases for the oral history collection and the Hershey Chronology.

For more information, visit the Hershey Community Archives at www.hersheyarchives.org

Also consider these resources in your research:

• One Man’s Vision: Hershey – A Model Town

  A brief history of the building of a model community

• The Man Behind the Chocolate Bar

  An introduction to Milton S. Hershey: 1857-1945

• The True History of Chocolate

  A history of chocolate from its origins in Mexico and Central America to the present day.
  Coe, Sophie and Michael. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1996

• Images of America: Hershey

  A pictural history of the town of Hershey, its founder, and the Hershey Chocolate Company.
  Houts, Mary Davidoff and Pamela Cassidy Whitenack. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.