Hershey is an unincorporated community in Dauphin County, about 10 miles east of Harrisburg. It is know primarily as the candy capital of the world. The town’s namesake, Milton Hershey, established his candy factory there at the beginning of the 20th century. He then founded the company town around 1905, and four years later founded a school for orphan boys that still exists today.
Besides the chocolate factory, there is a zoo, a museum dedicated to Milton Hershey’s legacies, an amusement park, a theater, and an antique auto museum.
There is no minor league baseball team,but there are the Harrisburg Senators and the Lancaster Barnstormers not too far away. However, for hockey fans, there are the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League. They are one of the oldest surviving minor league hockey teams in North America, playing in the AHL since 1938 under the same name. The Bears have won several Calder Cups (the AHL’s answer to the Stanley Cup), most recently in 2009.
The Hershey Fire Department was founded in 1905 and protects the Hershey municipality as well as most of Derry Township. It is all volunteer. In 2005 there was a parade to commemorate the Departments 100th anniversary.
I used to work across the street from Hershey Company's Times Square store.
While I have not been there (yet) I hope to make a visit in the near future, perhaps in the summer of 2009.
In this gallery we have Engine 48, Truck 48,the Hershey Fire Department patch, and an antique fire truck in the 100th anniversary parade in 2005
In the gallery above we have the current Bears logo, the original logo, a picture of the 2006 Calder Cup champions, and the 1935 Bears
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