Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Milton Hershey School
References
Britannica AI Icon

Milton Hershey School

vocational school, United States
Written by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Quick Summary

The Milton Hershey School is a vocational school in the United States founded by Milton Snavely Hershey. Hershey, an American manufacturer and philanthropist, also founded the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, which became a major global producer of chocolate candy. He established the school in 1909, and by 1918, he had transferred the majority of his wealth to the M.S. Hershey Foundation to support it. The school is located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a community that Milton Hershey developed around his chocolate factory.12

Summary created from Britannica articles using AI. AI can make mistakes, so verify using Britannica articles.
2 Britannica Sources
  1. Milton Snavely Hershey
  2. Hershey

Ask Britannica AI about this topic

Britannica doesn't have a full article on this topic, so we've curated a list of our relevant coverage.