Original Hershey Chocolate Factory Set to Close

Publish Date: 
October 14, 2010

Hershey's first factory, a brown brick building that dates to 1903, will be closed when the chocolate company moves to a modern facility now under construction.  At the heart of the town was the chocolate factory, a brown brick building nestled in the shadows of two smokestacks, where cocoa goodness wafted out into streets and homes.  That factory on the corner of Chocolate and Cocoa avenues, however, will soon be closing, and the chocolate making will move to another facility being built just outside the town.
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