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Hanover Town, Virginia

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Hanover Town
Townsite with two historical markers
Hanover Town, Virginia is located in Virginia
Hanover Town, Virginia
Hanover Town, Virginia is located in the United States
Hanover Town, Virginia
Nearest cityMechanicsville, Virginia
Area85 acres (34 ha)
NRHP reference No.74002122[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 17, 1974

Hanover Town is a former colonial-era town in Hanover County, Virginia. It was located on the upper Pamunkey River on land originally granted to John Page in 1672. Before being called Hanover Town, the location was originally known as "Page's Warehouse."[2] By the time of the 1730 Tobacco Inspection Act there was a tobacco warehouse at the site, referred to as "Crutchfield's" after the tobacco inspector John Crutchfield.[3] The town was chartered in 1762. The town was raided by British forces during the American Revolutionary War, and its fortunes declined in the years after independence because of silting in the river, resulting in its eventual abandonment.[4]

The town site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Rhea, Gordon C. (2007). Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26–June 3, 1864. LSU Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-8071-3575-4. originally known as Page's Warehouse, hanovertown in colonial times had been the Pamunkey's highest transshipment point for tobacco awaiting transportation downriver
  3. ^ Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses (1909). Journals. Colonial Press, E. Waddy Company. p. 281. [Wednesday November 9, 1748] Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of Thomas Anderson and John Crutchfield, Inspectors at Page's Warehouse, in Hanover County, for increasing their salary; be rejected.
  4. ^ Loth, Calder, ed. (1986). The Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. p. 192.