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Hanover Green Meetinghouse

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1825. Ashley St., off River Rd., 4 miles west of Ashley
  • (William E. Fischer, Jr.)
  • (William E. Fischer, Jr.)

Connecticut Yankees were not the only settlers in the region after the Revolutionary War. Significant numbers of Pennsylvania Germans settled in Hanover Township, downriver from Forty Fort. Similar to the Forty Fort meetinghouse ( LU42), the building shows the quick adoption of New England–style wood frame construction by Pennsylvania German settlers. Today a historic and modern cemetery surrounds the meetinghouse, but it retains its early-nineteenth-century integrity.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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Citation

George E. Thomas, "Hanover Green Meetinghouse", [Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-LU40.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 473-473.

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