When was hanover nh founded

Royal Governor Benning Wentworth reserved acres for himself when he chartered the Town of Hanover on July 4, , including these lands. The offer of these lands along with nearby acreage in both Hanover and Lebanon and a mill privilege on Mink Brook, later persuaded Rev. Eleazar Wheelock to choose Hanover as the site for Dartmouth College. Townspeople and students alike enjoy a vibrant and safe community that combines the cultural and business advantages of a city with the charms of small-town life — all in all an area of unparalleled natural beauty.

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It publishes every year until Pine Park Association is established in Money is raised by subscription to build a low earth dam to fill the marsh near Pine Park. Beavers remove the first dam, but the following year it is rebuilt with steel, resulting in Occom Pond. A nine hole golf course is laid out and opened on the Hilton Hill and surrounding acres. A second nine holes is added in By , all structures including the poor farm are removed, and Dartmouth begins to plant trees on former farm acres.

In 24 hours the money to replace it is raised by Dartmouth Alumni, who choose to rebuild it as it had looked before. They followed the new practice of replacing older wooden buildings with brick. It eventually becomes the Dartmouth Outing Club. It is the oldest and largest collegiate outing club in America. It includes students and non-students.

He was known for hollowing his own canoe and paddling it to the sea. Clifford Park and Dr. Frank Morgan. It is demolished in , a victim of insurance costs. Few original houses in the center of town remain as they had been fifty years before. When reconstructed, it is on College Street. The former location becomes the home of Baker Library. The old covered Ledyard Bridge is replaced by a new steel and concrete bridge. It lasts until Eventually a new one is built on its present location and opens in