Town
Hall Address: |
Town Hall
Main Street
P.O. Box 224
Sharon, CT 06069 |
History
Brief: |
This area was part of the Western Lands (Goshen, Colebrook, Kent, Hartland, Norfolk, Canaan, Cornwall, Salisbury, Sharon, Torrington, Barkhamsted, Harwinton, Winchester and New Hartford) made over to Hartford and Windsor in 1686 to save them from being taken by the Royal Gov. Andros. This area was surveyed with Salisbury in May 1732 and named, Township N.S. The land was sold at auction in New Haven in 1738. The inhabitants formed a town and called it, Sharon. The Court at New Haven recognized the town but did not authorize the name. Nevertheless, over time the name, Sharon, was accepted. Town vital records begin 1739. Barbour collection records cover 1739-1865. |
| Year: | 1800 | | Population: | 2340 |
| | Year: | 1850 | | Population: | 2507 |
| | Year: | 1900 | | Population: | 1982 |
| | Year: | 1950 | | Population: | 1889 |
| | Year: | 1990 | | Population: | 2928 |
| | Year: | 2000 | | Population: | 2968 | | |
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| Surname: | Barns |
| | Surname: | Calkin |
| | Surname: | Creppen |
| | Surname: | Dunham |
| | Surname: | Foster |
| | Surname: | Hamlin |
| | Surname: | Jones |
| | Surname: | Lamb |
| | Surname: | Mudge/Mudg |
| | Surname: | Peck |
| | Surname: | Pratt |
| | Surname: | Skinner |
| | Surname: | Smith |
| | Surname: | Sprague |
| | Surname: | Ticknor/Tickner |
| | Surname: | Way | | |
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| Name: | Amenia Union Cemetery | | Location: | Next to Amenia Union Cemetery |
| | Name: | Amernia Union Cemetery | | Location: | On road to Skiff Mountain |
| | Name: | Boland Cemetery | | Location: | Halfway between Sharon and Amenia (On west side of road) |
| | Name: | Cartwright Cemetery | | Location: | East Street |
| | Name: | Catholic Cemetery | | Location: | One mile west of Sharon Center |
| | Name: | Ellsworth Cemetery | | Location: | On south side of road between the two churches |
| | Name: | Hatch Farm Cemetery | | Location: | On Old Hatch Farm |
| | Name: | Hillside Cemetery | | Location: | Part of the Sharon Burying Ground |
| | Name: | Leedsville Cemetery | | Location: | On the Ford Farm |
| | Name: | Malcuit Farm Cemetery | | Location: | Two stones on farm of Charles Malcuit, Sharon Mountain |
| | Name: | Maravian Cemetery | | Location: | One stone(David Bruce 10) on center shore of Lake Wequadnach |
| | Name: | Pine Cemetery | | Location: | Sharon to Cornwall Road |
| | Name: | Pine Swamp Cemetery | | Location: | On road from Sharon to West Cornwall on left side of road |
| | Name: | Roberts Cemetery | | Location: | Two miles north of Ellsworth |
| | Name: | Sharon Burying Ground | | Location: | Sharon Street |
| | Name: | Smith-Cartwright Cemetery | | Location: | Pine Swamp |
| | Name: | St. Bridget Cemetery | | Location: | Cornwall Bridge Road |
| | Name: | Ticknor's Woods Cemetery | | Location: | East Street |
| | Name: | Town Poor Farm Cemetery | | Location: | On Hamlin Farm | | |
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| Name: | Christ Church Episcopal (860) 364-5260 | | Location: | 9 South Main Street (PO Box 1778) |
| | Name: | First Church of Christ (860) 364-5002 | | Location: | 25 Main Street |
| | Name: | Sharon United Methodist Church (860) 364-5634 | | Location: | 112 Upper Main Street |
| | Name: | St. Bernard's Church (860) 364-5244 | | Location: | 52 New Street | | |
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| Name: | The Clock Tower - Civil War Memorial | | Type: | Military | | |
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| Name: | Amenia Union |
| | Name: | Calkinstown |
| | Name: | Ellsworth |
| | Name: | Hitchcock Corners |
| | Name: | Sharon Center |
| | Name: | Sharon Valley |
| | Name: | Silver Lake |
| | Name: | West Woods |
| | Name: | White Hollow | | |
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| Name: | Ansel Sterling - U.S. Representative | | Type: | Historic |
| | Name: | J. Frank Grimes - Founder of the Independent Grocers Association | | Type: | Contemporary |
| | Name: | John Cotton Smith - Prominent Connecticut Politician | | Type: | Historic |
| | Name: | Joseph Boswick (Invented the Mousetrap) | | Type: | Historic |
| | Name: | William F. Buckley Jr. - Author & Conservative Commentator | | Type: | Contemporary | | |
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| Name: | Lakeville Journal - Weekly (860) 435-9873 | | Type: | Contemporary | | Location: | 33 Bissell Street, P.O. Box 1688, Lakeville, CT 06039 | | Website: | www.tcextra.com | | |
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| Name: | The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon (860) 364-5041 | | Type: | Current | | Location: | 10 Upper Main Street | | Website: | info@hotchkisslibrary.org | | |
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| Name: | Archaeological, Historical & Architectural Resources of the Town of Sharon | | Author: | The Sharon Historical Society | | Date Published: | 2005 | | Publisher: | The Sharon Historical Society |
| | Name: | General History of the Town of Sharon | | Author: | Charles F. Sedgwich | | Date Published: | 1877 | | Publisher: | Charles Walsh, Printer & Publisher | | |
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| Website Name: | Contact the: Sharon Historical Society (860) 364-5688 | | Website Address: | www.sharonhist.org | | |
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| Name: | Contact the: | | Contact Data: | Sharon Historical Society
The Gay-Hoyt House
18 Upper Main Street
(860 364-5688
www.sharonhist.org | | |
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| Birth: | 1738 - Present | | Marriage: | 1739 - Present | | Death: | 1740 - Present | | |
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