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• 1649 - Hanover is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1727 - Hanover is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1839 - Hanover
  Hanover, Massachusetts
  Plymouth county. Hanover is bounded S. by North river, which furnishes good mill sites. It was incorporated in 1727. It lies 23 miles S.E. from Boston and 12 N.W. from Plymouth. The manufactures of Hanover consist of bar iron, iron casings, anchors, ploughs, vessels, tacks, leather, boots, shoes, and woolen cloth: total annual amount, about $75,000. Pop. 1837, 1,435.
  The New England Gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England: also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands and fashionable resorts within that territory. Alphabetically arranged. By John Hayward, author of the Columbian Traveller, Religious Creeds, &c. &c. Boston: John Hayward. Boyd & White, Concord, N.H. 1839
  
• 1845 - HANOVER. [Pop. 1,488. Inc. 1727.]
  Hanover was probably named in compliment to the Duke of Hanover, who had lately been called to the English throne, under the title of George the First.
  
  The principal village is called 'The Four Corners' Some business is done in ship-building, and in the manufacture of shoes, and bar iron.
  
  Distance from Plymouth, 12 miles; from Boston, 23.
  An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
  
• 1854 - Hanover
  Hanover, a post-township of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, 20 miles S. S. E. from Boston. Population, 1592.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
• 1859
  HANOVER, a township of Plymouth co., in the state of Massachusetts, 24 m. SSW of Boston, bordered on the S by Pembroke creek, and on the E by a branch of that river. Pop. 1,488.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
• Hanover Massachusetts, 1890
  Hanover is a very pleasant town in the northerly part of Plymouth County, 26 miles from Boston, with which it is connected by the Hanover Branch of the Old Colony Railroad. It is bounded on the north by Rockland and South Scituate, on the east by the latter, on the south by Pembroke and Hanson, and on the west by Rockland. The assessed area is 9,297 acres, including 3,896 acres of woodland.
  
  The Four Corners village, at the confluence of the Third Herring Brook and North River (forming respectively the eastern and the southern lines of the town), is "Hanover" station, the terminal point of the railroad, at the southeast corner of the town. Other stations and villages along the railroad are Curtis' Crossing, Winslow's Crossing, South Hanover and West Hanover. Other villages are the centre, North Hanover, and at the northeast corner, Assinippa Village, having West Scituate as its post-office.
  
  With the exception of Walnut Hill in the north, and Round Top in the southwest, the land... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Hanover
  Hanover, a post-village of Plymouth co., Mass., in Hanover township, on the Hanover Branch Railroad, 25 miles S.S.E. of Boston. It contains the Hanover Academy, and has manufactures of shoes, nails, and tacks. The township has 4 churches. Pop, in 1890, 2093.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1916
  Hanover, a post-village of Plymouth co., Mass., in Hanover township (town), on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 25 miles SSE. of Boston. It has manufactures of nails, tacks, rubber-goods, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 2152; of the village, about 400.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
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