Hanover is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, 19 miles (31 km) southwest of York and 54 miles (87 km) north-northwest of Baltimore, Maryland and is 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the Mason-Dixon line. The town is situated in a productive agricultural region. The population was 16,429 at the 2020 census. The borough is served by the 717 Place code and the ZIP Codes of 17331-34. Hanover is named after the German city of Hannover.

The site of the answer encounter amid the Union and Confederate States armies since they fought against each extra in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, this borough has in the past become known as the “Snack Food Capital of the World” due to the introduction of combination food manufacturing businesses there during the 20th century.

In 1727, John Digges, an Irish nobleman of Prince George’s County, Maryland, obtained a agree of 10,000 acres (40 km) of home where Hanover is now located from Charles Calvert, the fourth Lord Baltimore. The area was called Digges Choice, and in 1730, a activity of Catholics started the agreement that became known as the Conewego Settlement. Settlers from both Maryland and Pennsylvania began heartwarming into the area in the 1730s. At this time, Maryland and Pennsylvania did not agree on the northern link up of Maryland and the southern connect of Pennsylvania, and the area that is now Hanover was in the disputed area claimed by both states. This led to numerous disputes not quite property ownership from the 1730s until 1760. The clash was settled in the tune of Maryland and Pennsylvania hired British experts Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to survey what became known as the Mason–Dixon Line. This extraction was surveyed with 1763 and 1767, and put an stop to decades of disputes greater than rights and ownership.

In 1745, a Scot-Irishman named Richard McAllister (father of Matthew McAllister) purchased the tract of land upon which the native town of Hanover was built. McAllister was a Presbyterian who had recently migrated from the Cumberland Valley. Hanover at that times was covered behind a dense tree-plant of hickory, walnut, and oak trees. McAllister erected a log house at what is now the corner of Baltimore and Middle streets, and opened a hoard and tavern. In 1763, McAllister on bad terms his farm into lots and founded the town of Hanover. German settlers nicknamed the settlement “Hickory Town” after the thick groves of hickory trees that grew in the area. The post Hanover was suggested by Michael Tanner, who was one of the commissioners who laid out York County in 1749 and owned large tracts of house southeast of the town. Tanner’s another of the proclaim came from the fact that he was a original of Hannover, Germany. The town’s founders, who wanted to charm the German settlers, agreed to the name. Hanover was with sometimes referred to as “McAllister’s Town” in its before years.