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| | Lancaster Brewing Company History |
 | | Lancaster’s beer and breweries have all disappeared with the exception of one. | | | The brewing industry in Lancaster grew and by the time of Prohibition had topped out at 14 breweries, including such breweries as John Wittlinger Brewery, Scheurenbrand Brewery, The Schoenberger and Miller Brewery, John Arnold Brewery, Lawarence Knapp Brewery, Charles Zech Brewery, Charles Fenninger Brewery, Bernard and John Hagg Brewery and Hilaire Zarphfel Brewery. | | | Today, the Lancaster Brewing Company on the corner of Plum and Walnut streets, is the only brewery in Lancaster City, reviving once again the great Lancaster beer brewing tradition. |
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http://www.lancasterbrewing.com/history.html
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| | Quest for a New Chocolate Bar - Hershey History |
| | Hershey began producing baking chocolate, cocoa and sweet chocolate coatings for caramels. | | | The company that introduced America to the milk chocolate bar was gaining much recognition for its ideals of social progress and prosperity for all. | | | Lancaster Caramel Company, founded in 1886 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the first successful venture started by Mr. |
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http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/casover/aefs497/hershey/new-5/HersheyHistory.html
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| | Although Hershey Foods was among the 25 largest food and beverage companies in the United States by 1993, the company was coming under increased competition pressure in the U.S. market as a number of companies introduced their own goods. | | | And last Hershey's classic caramels were introduced in two flavors: traditional caramel and chocolate crème filled. | | | Hershey made breakfast cocoa, sweet chocolate and baking chocolate. |
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http://www.csupomona.edu/~msharifzadeh/herseycase_update2001.htm
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| | Milton S. Hershey |
| | He turned the Hershey Chocolate enterprise into the quintessential company town, similar to the company towns of the Pennsylvania coal regions. | | | Later, he branched out to to breakfast cocoa, sweet chocolate and baking chocolate. | | | He then added milk to chocolate, which in turn created not only an empire, but the ultimate company town. |
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http://scsc.essortment.com/miltonshershe_raww.htm
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| | The History of Hershey - The Hershey Company |
| | Using chocolate-making equipment purchased at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the company produced baking chocolate, cocoa and sweet chocolate coatings for the parent company's caramels. | | | Today, The Hershey Company is a leading snack food company and the largest North American manufacturer of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, as well as chocolate-related grocery products. | | | It tells of how one determined pioneer from rural Pennsylvania built an international company, a town to go with it, and a chocolate and confectionery sensation. |
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http://www.hersheyfoods.com/about/history.asp
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| | The Man Behind The Chocolate |
| | He made the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1886. | | | He experimented wit cocoa, sugar, and milk to make the perfect milk chocolate bar. | | | He later learned that mixing milk into the caramel would make it creamier and last longer. |
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http://home.gci.net/~ganser/pages/hershey.htm
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| | History of Lancaster County |
| | Hershey's Chocolate was founded Lancaster in 1894 when Milton Hershey started a chocolate-making subsidiary of the Lancaster Caramel Company. | | | For a wealth of information on all things past, be sure to visit the Lancaster County Historical Society. | | | Many internationally-recognized brand names have called Lancaster County home. |
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http://www.lcci.com/lancaster/history.asp?header=relocate
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| | MILTON HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES |
| | His Lancaster Caramel Company made him a fortune, and it shocked people when he decided to sell it in 1900. | | | Fortunately, he found financial support from an old friend, and began the Lancaster Caramel Company. | | | The family moved a few miles away to Lancaster County in 1866. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4547/hershey.html
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| | Information about U.S. Proofcard®: 32¢ Milton Hershey: Great Americans Series |
| | There he established the Lancaster Caramel Company, where he introduced the method of using fresh milk in the production of caramels. | | | Having mastered that type of confectionery, Hershey sold his caramel company in 1900 for $1 million and embarked on perfecting a formula for the production of chocolate bars. | | | Once again, milk was the magic ingredient that set his candy apart from others. |
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http://www.unicover.com/EA4PAEDF.HTM
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| | Hershey Archives |
| | In 1894 the new Hershey Chocolate Company began manufacturing cocoa and sweet chocolate confections. | | | I remember in Lancaster when we first made milk chocolate. | | | The factory manufactured plain and almond milk chocolate bars, Kisses chocolates, and breakfast cocoa. |
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http://www.hersheyarchives.org/Default.aspx?Page=FactoryOrigins
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| | Cool Quiz! Trivia, Quizzes, Puzzles, Jokes, Useless Knowledge, FUN! |
| | Today the company's main plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania, uses about 700,000 quarts of milk each day, the storage silos at the plant hold 90-million pounds of cocoa bears, and Hershey Chocolate is the largest single user of almonds in the country. | | | In 1900, he sold the caramel company to concentrate exclusively on the flourishing chocolate business. | | | He then moved from city to city before finally returning to Lancaster in 1886 to open the Lancaster Caramel Company. |
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http://www.funhits.com/trivia/names/names.asp?name=hershey
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| | History of Lebbie Lebkicher |
| | Milton Hershey's success in Lancaster with the Lancaster Caramel Company would lead them both to the town of Derry Church, later to be named "Hershey". | | | Milton Hershey returned to Lancaster City and found shelter with his old employee, Lebbie Lebkicher. | | | Milton Hershey's mother's family were farmers in Lancaster County. |
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http://www.hersheypa.com/dining/lebbie_history.html
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| | Milton S. Hershey |
| | Hershey bought the equipment and had it installed in Lancaster where he began producing his own chocolate - 114 varieties in all. | | | From that time on, Hershey was extremely successful, and by 1894 he was considered one of Lancaster's most substantial citizens. | | | By the late 1800's, Hershey, who was now aware of the growing market for chocolate, was convinced that his future lay in producing it rather than caramels. |
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http://www.hersheytheatre.com/m3.html
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| | Hershey Museum |
| | Lancaster Caramel Company incorporated with Hershey Chocolate Company as a subsidiary which begins to produce baking chocolate, cocoa, and sweet chocolate coatings for caramels | | | Hershey's Nuggets milk chocolate with toffee and almonds, and dark chocolate with almonds introduced | | | Classic Caramels introduced (includes traditional creamy and chocolate crème filled) |
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http://www.hersheymuseum.org/students/first100.html
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| | In 1900 Hershey sold his caramel company for $1 million, bought 1,200 acres of land in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to build a town and a company manufacturing chocolate. | | | During the late 1860s popcorn companies started up with recipes being incorporated into many cookbooks. | | | The Emperors of Chocolate chronicles the history of chocolate, the companies Hershey and Mars, and why chocolate is a billion dollar business. |
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http://members.aol.com/wmtienken/special7.html
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| | Inventor Milton Hershey Biography |
| | A bar of milk chocolate made by the Hershey Chocolate Company. | | | A leading snack food company and the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, with revenues of over $4 billion and more than 13,000 employees worldwide. | | | While there, he purchased some German machinery, had it shipped to Lancaster and began producing chocolate coatings for his caramels. |
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/hershey.htm
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| | The Hershey Heritage |
| | “Caramels are just a fad,” he said, “but chocolate is a permanent thing.” He wanted to concentrate on making chocolate. | | | This was the start of the Lancaster Caramel Company, making confections he called “Crystal A” caramels. | | | Here, he learned a lesson which proved to be invaluable—the use of fresh milk in making caramels. |
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http://www.hersheytrust.com/cornerstones/heritage.shtml
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| | The My Hero Project - Milton S. Hersheym_hershey |
| | By 1905, he closed the Lancaster Caramel Company and moved the chocolate plant to Derry Church. | | | After his own candy shop failed in 1892, he traveled to Denver, Colorado, where he found that superior results could be achieved when fresh milk was used in the caramel-making process. | | | After attending the Chicago International Exposition in 1893, Hershey became interested in producing chocolate as well. |
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http://myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=m_hershey
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| | Bradley Rymph: Genealogy: Milton S. Hershey |
| | In 1903 he broke ground for a new chocolate factory in Derry County, Pennsylvania, adjoining Lancaster County. | | | When he was almost 40, Hershey returned to Lancaster. | | | In Denver, however, he learned an important fact in the candy business -- fresh milk makes good candy. |
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http://home1.gte.net/bbrymph/genhersh.htm
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| | Hershey, Pennsylvania / picture.JPG |
| | In 1893, he began producing chocolate coatings for his caramels and in 1894 the Hershey Chocolate Company was born as a subsidiary to his caramel company. | | | He used the money to build what is now the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant. | | | The caramel company was sold in 1900 for $1 million but Milton Hershey retained the chocolate manufacturing equipment and the rights to manufacture chocolate. |
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| | Chocolate |
| | In 1894, Milton started the Hershey Chocolate Company and produced chocolate caramels, breakfast cocoa, sweet chocolate and baking chocolate. | | | In 1886, Milton moved back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and started the successful Lancaster Caramel Company. | | | Milton later became an apprentice to a candy-maker in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and candy-making became a passion which Milton grew to love. |
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http://www.geocities.com/robert_cuschieri/inventionsChocolate.html
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| | Hershey Area Information |
| | In 1785, Dauphin County evolved from Lancaster County. | | | In 1729, the proprietors of Pennsylvania created Derry Township as part of Lancaster County. | | | He sold that company and relocated to Derry Township where he founded Hershey Chocolate Company in 1903. |
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| | Interactive Case Study: Hershey Foods Corporation |
| | These new hard candies are available in four different flavors -- caramel, butterscotch, peppermint, and chocolate. | | | In 1893 Hershey bought some chocolate making machinery from Germany and in 1894 Hershey Foods Corporation was made (1). | | | The new candies are being packaged in variety packs, containing one of each flavor, in hopes of increasing consumer penetration. |
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http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~tj126197/esp/gproject.htm
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| | Hershey, Pennsylvania - A History |
| | With this new-found capital and an acquired knowledge in milk chocolate production, Milton Hershey created Hershey's milk chocolate bar--the cornerstone of what is today the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant. | | | Milton S. Hershey, at the tender age of six, had set his sights on a small town northwest of Lancaster in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. | | | This was his birthplace, and it is where he would return to build his chocolate empire and create a whole new way of life. |
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http://familytravelguides.com/articles/greatlakes/Pennsylvania/hershist.html
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| | He purchased machines for the Lancaster Caramel Company to make chocolate coatings for his caramels. | | | Hershey came to own the caramel company and sold it for $1 million. | | | He then returned to his birthplace and began to build what is now the worlds largest chocolate manufacturing plant. |
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http://academic.uofs.edu/student/HARRINGTONL2/milton.html
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| | American Caramel Company 1913 - Company funded Milton Hershey's Chocolate Business |
| | He chose Derry Township with its rail line, adequate fresh water sources and abundant dairy farms as the location for his chocolate factory. | | | Instead of building a new factory in an established city, Milton Hershey envisioned building a model town with the money from the Lancaster Caramel Company sale. | | | In 1900, Milton Hershey sold his Lancaster Caramel Company in Mount Joy for a million dollars to The American Caramel Company. |
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http://www.scripophily.net/amcarcom19.html
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| | agencyfaqs! > ifaqs! quiz > # 203(march_03) |
| | Lancaster Caramel Company is a lesser well-known company created by this person. | | | "Innovation Delivered" is the baseline of which of these companies? | | | He is justly better known for creating another. |
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http://www.agencyfaqs.com/community/quiz/mar_03_2002quiz.html
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| | Hershey, Milton Snavely |
| | Real success finally came in his late thirties with the Lancaster Caramel Company, a business he eventually sold to a rival for a large sum. | | | The break that put Hershey in the history books came in 1893 when he stumbled across chocolate-manufacturing equipment at the Worldâs Fair in Chicago. |
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http://www.planningmatters.org.uk/idx/8271
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| | Inventor / Entrepreneur - A Class Act |
| | He rose from a $1.20 a week job for a thread company to the head of a company that sold for the equivalent of $12.5 billion! | | | The Linde AG, founded by the German scientist-entrepreneur Carl von Linde in 1879 with the name of "Society for Lindes Ice machines" today is the oldest German engineering company still in operation. | | | Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 |
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http://www.ideafinder.com/features/classact/entrepreneur.htm
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| | Milton Hershey Biography |
| | In 1886, Hershey opened the "Lancaster Caramel Company" which he later sold. | | | Started out as an apprentice, but Milton soon left to start his own business, opening his own shop in Philadelphia. | | | In 1909, Milton built a trade school for orphan boys. |
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http://www.paralumun.com/bushershey.htm
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| | Old Cardboard: Vintage Baseball Cards |
| | Produced by Standard Caramel Company of Lancaster, PA | | | Numbered set with full checklists on card backs |
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http://www.oldcardboard.com/e/e1/e093/e93.asp?cardsetID=734
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