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Sugar City
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This is a really interesting story coming out of the new relationship with Cuba, about a model town built by Milton Hershey in Cuba in 1918, a plant with a railroad and an entire city, with hotel, golf course, hospital, pharmacy, school, railroad, everything. It was, in its time, a worker's paradise, with exceptions - segregation, for one, which was pretty much the rule in that era, unfortunately. You can even still take the rickety railroad out there now, although the town's now a wreck, the sugar plant closed when the bottom fell out of the sugar market in 2002, and deteriorating well before that after being nationalized by Castro in 1962. But it's a glimpse into Cuba before the revolution, and an interesting side note to history. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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