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Milton Hershey built High Point Mansion nineteen oh-eight cost fifty-three thousand dollars total one hundred thousand with furnishings. Twenty-two rooms hilltop overlooking chocolate factory workers below. Catherine Sweeney married eighteen ninety-eight died March nineteen fifteen age forty-two locomotor ataxia progressive paralysis. Nineteen eighteen Milton transferred sixty million dollars entire fortune Hershey Industrial School Trust kept secret five years. Nineteen thirty donated mansion Hershey Country Club retained second-floor apartment watched factory below. April second through seventh nineteen thirty-seven six-day strike chocolate workers two hundred forty thousand quarts milk spoiled. Farmers loyal workers stormed factory fists clubs ice picks beat strikers violently. Milton watched from second-floor window age eighty years. Died October thirteenth nineteen forty-five age eighty-eight alone second-floor apartment. Current Milton Hershey School Trust seventeen point four billion dollars educates two thousand students spends one point five percent endowment annually. Hershey Trust Company occupies High Point since nineteen ninety-one manages endowment.
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High Point Mansion Construction & History:

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1937 Hershey Strike:

Wikipedia - Pennsylvania Chocolate Workers' Strike 1937: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsyl...
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Milton Hershey School Trust & Endowment:

ProPublica - America's Richest School: https://www.propublica.org/article/am...
ProPublica - $17 Billion Endowment Board Records: https://www.propublica.org/article/he...
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