HANOVER, a village of Grafton county, state of New Hampshire, North America. It stands on an elevated plain about half a mile E. of Connecticut River, and 55 miles N.W. of Concord. In connection with Dartmouth College, founded here in 1769, there is a flourishing medical school instituted in 1797. Among the eminent men who have been educated at Dartmouth College may be mentioned the late Daniel Webster. Pop. 2352.