Hershey

High School

Before there was the Village of Hershey, there was a school. It wasn't, however, until 1917, with the completion of a then new building, that the town offered their students a senior year. The Hershey Eagles began going to state basketball touraments in the late 1920s. In 1953, they won the Class D state track and field championship. The school's graduates include Larry Liles, whose name appears on the Vietnam Memorial Wall (Nebraska High School Historical Society 509.

The Town of Hershey

Founded in 1891 by the widow of a railroad engineer, and encorporated in 1909, Hershey is in the vicinity of the historic locations of Fremont Station, which served the Pony Express as well as stage lines, and O'Fallon Bluff Station, a small miliary outpost during "the hostilities with the Indians" (Wilson 121). From 1980 to 1990, its population declined by about nine percent to 579 (Nebraska Blue Book 816).