East Hanover Township near Palmyra in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Hanover Church
American Presbyterian and Reformed Historical Site
Erected 1947 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. (Marker Number 121.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • War, US Revolutionary. In addition, it is included in the American Presbyterian and Reformed Historic Sites, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1736.
Location. 40° 22.32′ N, 76° 39.042′ W. Marker is near Palmyra, Pennsylvania, in Dauphin County. It is in East Hanover Township. Marker is at the intersection of Laudermilch Road (U.S. 22) and Pennsylvania Route 743 on Laudermilch Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2045 Laudermilch Rd, Grantville PA 17028, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Hanover Resolves (approx. 0.6 miles away); Fort Manada (approx. 2.3 miles away); Union Canal (approx. 4 miles away); Blue Mountain Forts (approx. 4.3 miles away); Indiantown (approx. 4.4 miles away); Lindley Murray (approx. 4½ miles away); Meet the Mother Tree (approx. 5 miles away); Original Hershey Rose Garden (approx. 5 miles away).
Regarding Hanover Church. Old Hanover Presbyterian Churchyard is one of 445 American Presbyterian and Reformed Historical Sites registered between 1973 and 2003 by the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS), headquartered in Philadelphia. Approved sites received a metal plaque featuring John Calvins seal and the sites registry number (PHS marker location on one of the stone monuments in churchyard).
The following text is taken from the Presbyterian Historical Society website:
This walled graveyard is the site of the 1736 log meeting house where the former Hanover Presbyterian Church met. This location may have been where the Hanover Resolves of 1774 declared "in a close union of the Colonies lies the safeguard of the liberties of the people." The church's first pastor, Richard Sankey, left in 1759. The Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania sent Robert Annan to preach in 1762, elected elders in 1767, and offered a call from Hanover to John Murray in 1774. During May and June of 1774, when the Hanover Resolves were written, the Associate ministers William Logan, James Proudfoot, and John Smith preached in the Hanover meeting house. The second and last church building to occupy this site was torn down about 1875.
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