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Hagan ice cream is one of those things you can't get when you're traveling in Texas or Chicago. The frozen sweet is sold only in a several-hundred-mile radius of the Pittsburgh region, where it logs 75 percent of its total sales.
That's kind of interesting when you realize the ice cream, formerly a Uniontown product, has been made in Lancaster for the past several years. The business sold by the Hagan family in the mid- 1960s is now part of Crowley Foods, the same company that owns Heluva Good dips and Maggio cheeses.
Despite such corporate changes, the owners believe there's still a lot of hometown appeal tied up in the name. It's been associated with ice cream for 125 years and belongs to the family that commissioned famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Fayette County house known as Kentuck Knob, roughly seven miles from his better known masterpiece Fallingwater.
"We want to leverage our local identity and heritage," said Tim Rice, who heads Hagan's local sales office that employs eight in Uniontown.
The immediate priority...