Hanover’s former high school, erected in 1911 on one of the town’s most prominent sites, was built in the Georgian Revival style and became a local landmark, with its site known as College Hill and its teachers addressed as professor as a sign of respect. In 1934, Emergency Relief Act funds financed construction of a gymnasium addition. Grades one through twelve met there until 1946, and middle school classes continued in the building until it closed in 1962. Threatened with demolition, the building was acquired in 1977 by the Hanover-Horton Area Historical Society for use as a museum. Hanover’s earliest schoolchildren had met in a log building at the corner of State and Spink Streets in 1839, and a succession of buildings served the growing town, including the 1911 school. In nearby Horton, a three-room school built in 1873 held classes until it burned in 1940. In 1945, Hanover, Horton, and nine one-room school districts consolidated as the Hanover-Horton Rural Agricultural School District. The district was then served by two elementary schools, one built in Horton in 1949 and one erected in Hanover in 1954, and a new high school opened in 1958. Additions to Hanover Elementary School in 1998 created a single elementary school for the district.