Hanover County

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For the second consecutive year, Hanover County was named one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People in 2008. Last year it passed the 100,000 population mark.

If lush green acres spread out over 471 square miles is what you are looking for, Hanover County is the place to be.

Poor Farm Park in Hanover County has athletic fields, play equipment and excellent biking & hiking trails.

Pole Green Park, a 232-acre park on state Route 627, about four miles east of Interstate 295 and located behind Pole Green Elementary School.

Hanover Wayside, a 36-acre park offering a picnic shelter, tot-lot, ballfield, and nature trail.

Hanover Courthouse was built around 1735 and lawyer Patrick Henry tried his first case there in 1763.

See Hanover Tavern, an historic landmark in Hanover County dating to 1791.

The Richmond National Battlefield Park protects more than 2,000 acres of land in its 11 units spread throughout Richmond and the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico.  Other than a few small parking lots, tour roads and visitors centers, most of that land is essentially green space—protected nature preserve.

Tour Cold Harbor National Battlefield in Hanover County, part of the 1864 Overland Campaign.

Tour Hanover County’s Cold Harbor Battlefield Park.

Tour Garthright House in Hanover County, a field hospital during the Battle of Cold Harbor.

Tour Beaver Dam Creek, part of the two-mile Union front that Confederates unsuccessfully attacked.

Tour Hanover County’s North Anna Battlefield Park, part of the 1864 Overland Campaign.

Here’s a sampling of Ashland’s nonfranchise restaurants starting from Interstate 95 and going west on England Street.