George H. Danner: The Retailer and His Relic Rooms

Posted by Jonathon Cox on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on George H. Danner: The Retailer and His Relic Rooms In the early 1930s Milton S. Hershey established an Indian Museum in the town which he had built around his chocolate factory. Like the town’s amusement park, ornate theater and fa­mous Starlight Ballroom, the museum was provided as a source of enjoyment and recre­ation for Hershey’s workers and their families. In 1935, in a move which broadened the focus of the original Indian...
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An American Indian Museum for Mr. Hershey’s Model Town

Posted by James McMahon on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on An American Indian Museum for Mr. Hershey’s Model Town Hershey. Sixty years ago this Dauphin County commu­nity was a cozy, well-planned company town, replete with its very own amusement park, grand hotel, handsome community building, opulent theater, sports arena, and neat rows of well-kept houses for the factory workers of Chocolate­town, U. S. A. The air hung thick with the delicious aroma of cocoa, making the little town seem an even more...
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