Editing Hanover, New Hampshire (section)

==History==
Hanover was chartered by Governor [[Benning Wentworth]] on July 4, 1761, and in 1765–1766 its first European inhabitants arrived, the majority from [[Connecticut]]. Although the surface is uneven, the town developed into an agricultural community. Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the [[common land|town common]] at a village called "the Plain"—an extensive and level tract of land a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the [[Connecticut River]], and about {{convert|150|ft}} above it.<ref name=Coolidge>{{Cite book| last = Coolidge| first = Austin J.| author2=John B. Mansfield| title = A History and Description of New England| publisher = A.J. Coolidge| year = 1859| location = Boston, Massachusetts| pages = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ/page/n556 516]–519| url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A history of the town of Hanover, N.H. {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/1861875 |access-date=November 17, 2022 |website=www.worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lord |first=John King |url=http://archive.org/details/historyoftownofh00lord |title=A history of the town of Hanover, N.H. |date=1928 |publisher=[Hanover] Printed for the town of Hanover by the Dartmouth Press |others=Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center}}</ref>

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover, site of "The Plain", 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 [[Vermont Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The College on the Hill: A Dartmouth Chronicle |last=Hill |first=Ralph Nading |editor1-first=Ralph Nading |editor1-last=Hill |publisher=Dartmouth Publishing |year=1965 |location=Hanover, NH |page=46 |doi = 10.1349/ddlp.1484}}</ref> After various political posturings, however, the towns returned to New Hampshire at the heated insistence of [[George Washington]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/american_republic/western.php |title=The American Republic: 1760–1780: The Western Rebellion |work=New Hampshire Profile |first=Jere |last=Daniell |year=1976 |publisher=The Flow of History |access-date=February 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122132910/http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/american_republic/western.php |archive-date=November 22, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> One remnant of this era is that the name "Dresden" is still used in the [[Dresden School District]], an [[Hanover High School (New Hampshire)|interstate school district]] serving both Hanover and [[Norwich, Vermont]]—the first and one of the few interstate school districts in the nation.

The film ''[[Winter Carnival (film)|Winter Carnival]]'' (1939) was shot in Hanover.<ref>Barth, Jack (1991). ''Roadside Hollywood: The Movie Lover's State-By-State Guide to Film Locations, Celebrity Hangouts, Celluloid Tourist Attractions, and More''. Contemporary Books. Page 249. {{ISBN|9780809243266}}.</ref>

=== Etymology ===
"Hannover" (with a double n, as it was spelled in the 1761 charter and in its German original form as well) was named either after a local parish in [[Sprague, Connecticut]], or after the German [[House of Hanover]] (which originated in 1635 as a [[cadet branch]] of the House of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg]] when [[George, Duke of Brunswick]] moved to the city of [[Hannover]])<ref name="mlrö22">{{cite web |title=Chronik der Stadt Hannover von den Anfängen bis 1988 – Tabellarische Darstellung |trans-title=History of the City of Hannover from the Beginnings to 1988 – Tabulated Layout |work=Stadtchronik Hannover |trans-work=History of the City of Hannover |volume=1: 18 000 v. Chr. bis 1988 |editor1-first=Klaus |editor1-last=Mlynek |editor1-link=Klaus Mlynek |editor2-first=Waldemar R. |editor2-last=Röhrbein |editor2-link=Waldemar R. Röhrbein |language=de |publisher=Stadtarchiv Hannover |url=https://www.hannover.de/content/download/742032/file/Chronik%201%20bis%201988.pdf |access-date=June 20, 2023}}</ref>{{rp|25}} in honor of the reigning British-Hanoverian king, [[George III]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hanovernh.org/about |title=About the Town of Hanover |publisher=www.hanovernh.org |access-date=February 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528152115/http://www.hanovernh.org/about |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}</ref> Today, the original Hannover is the capital and largest city of [[Lower Saxony]], the second-largest state in [[Germany]]. The name of the German city is thought to derive from the [[Low German]] form of what is "{{lang|de|hohes Ufer|italic=unset}}" in German, which translates into "high shore" in English, and describes the high shore of the [[Leine]] river at the site, and at the time, of the first known settlement (near today's street {{ill |Am Hohen Ufer |de |lt=At the High Shore|v=sup}}).

While it is likely that the name "Dresden" derived from [[Dresden]] in Germany, it has also been suggested that it could derive directly from the old [[Sorbian languages|Sorbian]] word ''drezg'' ("forest") or ''Drezd'ane'', for an inhabitant of a forest.<ref>The settlers in the riverside forest, an appellation fully compatible with that of the early inhabitants of the Hanover Plain.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1997/HoefnagelClose.html| title=Dresden: What Is in the Name| author=Dick Hoefnagel and Virginia L. Close| access-date=October 25, 2008}}</ref>