Hanover

Hanover was a college town in 1765 when it received a charter for that purpose. Hanover is the ideal college town, the home of Dartmouth College. This Ivy League school has a campus befitting its prestige. View the matching Georgian brick buildings and manicured green as you stroll across the campus.

With a map from the college information office on the green, you may tour the campus and view the beautiful historic mansions that now make up the fraternity district as well as the powerful floor-to-ceiling murals in the Baker-Berry Library that Jose Clemente Orozco painted in the 1920s. The Hopkins Center for the Arts, also known as "The Hop", is located in front of the campus and hosts a variety of national acts in its 900-seat concert hall in addition to dance and theater performances in its smaller Moore Theater.

The magnificent Hood Museum of Art is located behind the Hopkins Center, almost hidden away and set back from the street. This recently renovated museum, which has nearly doubled its gallery space, is reason enough to stay in Hanover. The collections contain more than 65,000 pieces, with a focus on African and Native American art as well as American landscapes from the 19th century