Dover is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[6] During the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War, Dover was briefly occupied overnight, June 30 – July 1, by Confederate cavalry under J.E.B.

The Englehart Melchinger House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all land.

The case was resolved on December 20, 2005, when Judge John E. Jones III ruled that the Dover Area School District cannot teach Intelligent Design in a science class room, due to its religious origins.

[13][14] In an upset election on November 8, 2005, the eight Republican school board members who voted for the language were all defeated by the challengers from the Dover Cares slate—four Democrats and four Republicans, forced by election rules to run on the Democratic ticket—who opposed the teaching of intelligent design in a science class.

Two days after the upset, Pat Robertson commented on the election results on The 700 Club: He later revisited his previous warning: