Hanover is a town in Hanover Township, Jefferson County, southeast Indiana, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,546 at the 2010 census. Hanover is the home of Hanover College, a little Presbyterian modern arts college. The “Point,” located upon the campus of Hanover College, is the forlorn place along the Ohio River that three bends of the river can be viewed at once. The tallest waterfall in Indiana, Fremont Falls, is located in Hanover.

Southwestern High School is the public school.

During the late eighteenth century, the area today known as the welcome of Indiana was a portion of the Northwest Territory in the new United States. This large area west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River had been ceded by Great Britain after the Revolutionary War. It consisted of the area later organized as the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota. At that time, there were few European settlements upon the northern bank of the Ohio River, although French colonists had contracted in the west Illinois Country along the Mississippi River. Kentucky, which developed upon the southern banks of the Ohio, was originally considered ration of Virginia. In 1792 it was settled statehood after becoming more densely arranged by European Americans. Prior to the to the front nineteenth-century European-American settlement of the Hanover area, its predominant inhabitants were the Shawnee people.

George Logan (1780-May 12, 1875) grew occurring in a gardening household in the Place of Lexington, Kentucky. Soon after the slant of the year in 1801, young Logan loaded a barge with build and embarked on a trading journey westward on the Ohio River, ultimately to sell the develop in New Orleans. He future noted that there were no European-American settlements in the Place between present-day Carrollton, Kentucky and Louisville. He said both banks of the river were covered in thick forest, and reported seeing Native American hunters and fishermen, numerous buffalo and deer, and heard the cries of coyotes.