Hanover Town is a former colonial-era town in

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. It was located on the upper

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on land originally granted to John Page in 1672. Before being called Hanover Town, the location was originally known as "Page's Warehouse." 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. The town was chartered in 1762. The town was raided by British forces during the

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, and its fortunes declined in the years after independence because of silting in the river, resulting in its eventual abandonment. The town site was listed on the

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in 1974.

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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Hanover County, Virginia Ghost towns in Virginia Populated places on the National Register of Historic Places {{HanoverCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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