Hanoverton Canal Town District

Hanoverton's canal town district covers 23 acres in Columbiana County, Ohio. James Craig platted the community in 1813 as Hanover, and brick houses along Plymouth Street were well underway by 1817. Speculators expected a city to rival those in the East, so buildings were packed onto small lots, but the boom never came. The Beaver and Sandy Canal, begun in 1834 and completed in 1848, never operated commercially, and the company went bankrupt. The district's notable buildings include the 1817 Michael Arter House, the 1831 Sloan Brick Row, which began as an inn and tavern, and the richly ornamented Spread Eagle Tavern of 1837, with its ballroom and early Masonic temple. Two-story brick and frame houses, a Christian Church of 1859 and a Queen Anne Presbyterian Church of 1900 complete the street. Plymouth Street has stayed largely unchanged since the early 1840s, preserving the look of a small canal-era town.