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  2. Hanover County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.co.hanover.va.us. Hanover County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 109,979. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Hanover. [ 2 ] Hanover County is a part of the Greater Richmond Region.

  3. New Hanover County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.nhcgov.com. New Hanover County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 225,702. [ 1 ] Though the second-smallest county in North Carolina by land area, [ 2 ] it is one of the most populous, as its county seat, Wilmington, [ 3 ] is one of the state's largest communities. The ...

  4. Scotchtown (plantation) - Wikipedia

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    Scotchtown is a plantation located in Hanover County, Virginia, that from 1771 to 1778 was owned and used as a residence by U.S. Founding Father Patrick Henry, his wife Sarah and their children. He was a revolutionary and elected in 1778 as the first Governor of Virginia. The house is located in Beaverdam, Virginia, 10 miles (16 km) northwest ...

  5. New Hanover County leaders talk school funding, budget ...

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    For fiscal year 2023-24, the county’s contribution to New Hanover County Schools totaled around a third of the total county budget at $140,623,332, with funds going toward school therapists ...

  6. Hanover County Courthouse - Wikipedia

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    Designated VLR. November 5, 1968 [1] Hanover County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in the community of Hanover Courthouse, the county seat of Hanover County, Virginia. Built about 1735, it is one of the nation's oldest courthouses still in use for that purpose. It is historically notable as the site of the Parson's Cause case ...

  7. Hanover, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    2629025. Hanover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat [2] and is located at the junction of U.S. Route 301 and State Route 54 south of the Pamunkey River. While historically known as Hanover Courthouse, the U.S. Geological Survey, Census Bureau, Postal ...

  8. Edmund Ruffin Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1840, the plantation was purchased in 1843 by Edmund Ruffin, a Virginia planter and a pioneer in agricultural improvements; he also published an agricultural journal in the 1840s named the Farmer's Register. One of a group of intellectuals they called "the sacred circle", [4] he worked to reform agriculture in the South, promoting crop ...

  9. Ashland, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Ashland, Virginia. (2020) Ashland is a town in Hanover County, Virginia, United States, located 16 miles (26 km) north of Richmond along Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 7,565, [ 5 ] up from 7,225 at the 2010 census. Ashland is named after the Lexington, Kentucky estate of Hanover County native and ...