Incorporated: 1761
Population: 10,850
County Name: Grafton
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Hanover
PO Box 483
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-643-0701
Fax: 603-643-1720
Website: hanovernh.org

Origin:
Granted in 1761, the town was named for Hanover Parish, home parish of settlers from Lisbon, Connecticut. Governor Benning Wentworth selected Hanover as the site of Dartmouth College with Eleazar Wheelock, minister at Lebanon, Conn., as its first president. Dartmouth College's first mission was education of Indians, and later added another mission: to educate English youths to be missionaries among the Indians. Hanover includes the village of Etna, named for Sicily's volcanic mountain.

More about Hanover:
Best known for its Ivy League school, Dartmouth College, Hanover is also the center of cultural and recreational pursuits in the Upper Valley. The town of Hanover was ranked #2 on Money Magazine's annual list of the Best Places to Live for 2007.

Other Communities: Etna, located east of Hanover