Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

Dartmouth is the largest private landowner of the town of Hanover, and its total landholdings and facilities are worth an estimated $ 434 million.

In addition to its campus in Hanover, Dartmouth owns of Mount Moosilauke in the White Mountains Region and a tract of land in northern New Hampshire known as the Second College Grant.

Begun in 1986, Tubestock met its demise in 2006 when Hanover town ordinances and a lack of coherent student protest conspired to defeat the popular tradition.

Hanover did not have to support a lavish court — its rulers were also kings of England and resided in London.

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

Hanover is also of national importance because of its universities and medical school, its international airport, and its large zoo.

Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural crossroads.

The Staatsoper Hannover | Staatsoper Hanover (" state opera ") is housed in its classical 19th century opera house.

Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD / LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower ( designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

With its around 40 parks, forests and gardens, a couple of lakes, two rivers and one canal, Hanover offers a large variety of leisure activities.

TUI AG has its HQ in Hanover.

The University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover also maintains its own botanical garden specializing in medicinal and poisonous plants, the Heil-und Giftpflanzengarten der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover.

On 1 January 2005, Lower Saxony disbanded its remaining four Regierungsbezirke: Brunswick, Hanover, Lüneburg, and Weser-Ems.

He began depositing the money in the Hanover Trust Bank of Boston ( a small bank on Hanover Street in the mostly Italian North End ), in the hope that once his account was large enough he could impose his will on the bank or even be made its president ; he bought a controlling interest in the bank through himself and several friends after depositing $ 3 million.

That afternoon, Bank Commissioner Allen seized Hanover Trust after finding numerous irregularities in its books.

George thus became Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( also known as Hanover, after its capital ) as well as Archbannerbearer and a Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

After the peace ending the Napoleonic wars reshaped Europe ushering in the Modern era, the Electorate of Hanover ( duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg held in personal union by the king of Great Britain, George III ) was dissolved by treaty, its lands were enlarged, and the state promoted to a kingdom.

It is bounded on the north by the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, the independent city of Fredericksburg ( all of which were part of the area's early history ), and the counties of Stafford and Culpeper ; on the south by the North Anna River and its impoundment, Lake Anna, and by the counties of Hanover and Louisa ; on the west by Orange County and Culpeper County ; and on the east by Caroline County.

They also made it available to high schools in the Hanover area and put a considerable amount of effort into promoting the language.

In addition to being the capital of Lower Saxony, Hanover was the capital of the administrative area Regierungsbezirk Hannover ( Hanover region ) until Lower Saxony's administrative regions were disbanded at the beginning of 2005.

The facility also provides water to the surrounding area through wholesale contracts with Henrico, Chesterfield, and Hanover counties.

Prior to 1900, the area occupied by what would become the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

The Cherusci were a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the northern Rhine valley and the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area between present-day Osnabrück and Hanover, during the 1st century BC and 1st century AD.

He married Alice Anna Graham, daughter of William Graham, on 16 May 1871 in the St George Hanover Square area.

Herrenhausen is an area of the German city Hanover which is most notable for the baroque Herrenhausen Gardens.

Hanover County was created on November 26, 1720, from the area of New Kent County called St. Paul's Parish.

Streamwood, along with Bartlett and Hanover Park, is one of the three communities that make up the so called " Tri Village " area.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, all of it land. Hanover, Illinois, is located in Jo Daviess County in the northwest corner of Illinois, within five miles of the Mississippi River.

The present site of Hanover was a Sac and Fox Indian village when white settlers came to farm the area in 1828.

The present site of Hanover was a Sac and Fox Indian village when white settlers came to farm the area in 1828.

It is likely that prior to the early nineteenth century European settlement of the Hanover area, its predominant inhabitants were Shawnee.

He stopped his barge roughly a half mile west of the present-day area of Hanover Beach.

This was the first recorded instance of a European exploring the area of Hanover.

Judge Williamson Dunn ( December 25, 1781-November 11, 1854 ), from Mercer County, Kentucky, was 27 when, on November 28, 1808, he purchased the land area of modern Hanover from the federal government.

The following year, in 1809, Dunn resettled his entire family to the area, and they became the first residents of a town called " Dunn's Settlement ," which would later come to be known as Hanover.

These early settlers had largely emigrated from Ireland to Virginia, then to Kentucky, and finally to the area of Hanover.

Initially, classes met in the Presbyterian Church's old stone church building, which was located in the present-day area of the Hanover Firehouse.

Although the Hanover was largely founded by Presbyterians, it was not long before people of other religious persuasions began moving into the area.

The area of Hanover was first settled by English settlers in 1649 when William Barstow, a farmer, built a bridge along the North River at what is now Washington Street.

Reconstruction resulted in a controversial urban renewal project featuring a closed-off district, called The Mall, built to replace the destroyed Hanover Street area.