Hanover (Pennsylvania) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
About Hanover (Pennsylvania)
Hanover has been home to Utz Quality Foods since 1921 which still produces its products there, and to Snyder's of Hanover since 1905. There is an Utz outlet store. In nearby areas there are other snack food makers including Hanover Foods, Wolfgang Candy, Martin's Potato Chips, Hershey Foods, Herr's Snacks and Gibbles Potato Chips. In 1727, John Digges, an Irish nobleman of Prince George's County, Maryland, obtained a grant of 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land where Hanover is now located from Charles Calvert, the fourth Lord Baltimore. The area was called Digges Choice, and in 1730, a group of Catholics started the settlement that became known as the Conewego Settlement. Settlers from Maryland and Pennsylvania began moving into the area in the 1730s. In 1745, a Scot-Irishman named Richard McAl
Where to Stay in Hanover (Pennsylvania)
- 🏨Beechmont Inn Bed & Breakfast
- 🏨Econo Lodge
- 🏨Hampton Inn
- 🏨Super 8 Motel
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