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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
HANOVER, 8.8 miles (190 alt., 150 pop.), lies just L. of the highway. Of its dozen or so old-fashioned houses, six are used for the collection, restoration, and sale of antiques. The village was settled in 1710 by Germans who had sailed for New York but were driven by cross-winds to Delaware Bay. Moving northward, they found the fertile Passaic Valley lands to their liking and bought a tract. The HANOVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, dating from 1835, was built largely with timber salvaged from an earlier church erected 1735. It has a low, square tower; the Gothic windows have diamond-shaped panes. Surplus lumber from the old church was sold by the congregation and some of the handsome white-pine paneling decorated a cow barn until it was resold for use in a Morristown mansion. The church cemetery contains the GRAVE OF DAVID YOUNG (1781- 1852), the astronomer who is said to have charged the French Academy only $10 for making the decision that the Star of Bethlehem was not a comet.
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