Hanover Township

Hanover Township

  • 1267 Sans Souci Pkwy
  • Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
  • 18706

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Hanover Township has a most interesting history. One of the original Connecticut Townships laid out by the Susquehanna Company, Hanover Township is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania along the Eastern Bank of the Susquehanna River in the heart of the scenic Wyoming Valley. Its early history is interwoven with some of the most stirring incidents of the Wyoming Valley life of pioneer days. The pioneers in Hanover Township had already made history in Southern Pennsylvania. Among the settlers were strong-minded, self-reliant men of Scotch-Irish antecedents, men who, in the time of Indian unrest that followed the French and Indian war, had relied more upon themselves than upon the government for protection. The Paxton Boys of Lancaster County, had dealt so sternly with the Conestoga Indians in 1763 that there was peace on the Conestoga and that part of the Susquehanna for many years after. Captain Lazarus Stewart and his company of forty most of who were Paxton Boys moved from...

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