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The chocolatier who built the only electric train in Cuba

In 1917, Pennsylvanian businessman Milton S. Hershey bought thousands of acres of land in Cuba to sustain his 'bourgeoning chocolate business', soon to become the empire of Hershey's chocolate. Hershey built an entire town alongside his sugar mills, including a school, sports field and a railway system, which remains the 'only electric railway track in the whole of Cuba'.

In Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti, actress Joanna Lumley visits the Pennsylvanian corner of Cuba and other Caribbean regions tourists rarely get to explore.

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