Hershey Chocolate Corporation

  Product Details Certificate TypeCommon StockDate IssuedSeptember 24, 1951CanceledYesPrinterSecurity Bank Note CompanySignaturesMachine printedApproximate Size12" (w) by 8 1/4" (h)Additional DetailsNA Historical Context The Hershey Company traces its origins to the 1880s, when Milton S. Hershey founded the Lancaster Caramel Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After seeing German-made chocolate-processing machinery at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Hershey decided to go into the chocolate business. In 1894 he started a chocolate company that had various confections on the market by the following year. In 1900 he sold the caramel company to a competitor and began the manufacture and sale of milk chocolate bars. Business was so successful that in 1903 Hershey started work on a new factory in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. It eventually became the world’s largest chocolate-manufacturing plant. An unincorporated community called Hershey developed around the