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Encyclopedia Britannica



HANOVER

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 927 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HANOVER , a borough of
York
  county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., 36 m. S. by W. of Harrisburg, and 6 m. from the S. border of the state. Pop. (189o) 3746; (1900) 5302, (133 foreign-born); (1910) 70J7. It is served by the Northern Central and the Western
Maryland
  railways. The borough is built on nearlylevel ground in the fertile valley of the Conewago, at the point of intersection of the turnpike roads leading to
Baltimore
 ,
Carlisle
 ,
York
  and Frederick, from which places the principal streetssections of these roadsare named. Among its manuiantures are foundry and machine-shop products, flour, silk, waggons, shoes, gloves, furniture, wire cloth and cigars. The
settlement
  of the place was begun mostly by Germans during the middle of the 18th century. Hanover was laid out in 1763 or 1764 by Col. Richard MacAllister; and in 1815 it was incorporated. On the 3oth of June 1863 there was a cavalry engagement in and near Hanover between the forces of Generals H. J. Kilpatrick (Union) and J. E. B. Stuart (Confederate) preliminary to the battle of Gettysburg. This engagement is commemorated by an equestrian statue erected in Hanover by the state.


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