History, News and Stories of Sharon, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1650 - Sharon is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1839 - Sharon
  Sharon, Massachusetts
  Norfolk county. Mashapoag pond in this town is one of the sources of Neponset river. Sharon has a good water power; one woolen and two cotton mills. There are also manufactures of axes, bed-steads, straw bonnets, leather, boots, shoes, wool cards, machinery, joiners' gages,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1845 - SHARON. [Pop. 1,076. Inc. 1765.]
  Sharon was once a part of Stoughton, and, with it, a part of Dorchester.
  
  The Indians called it Mashapoag, and from a pond of the same name issues one of the chief sources of Neponset River.
  
  It manufactures are cotton and woollen goods, and straw bonnets.
  
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• 1854 - Sharon
  Sharon, a post-village in Norfolk co., Massachusetts, on the Boston and Providence railroad, 17 miles S. by W. from Boston. Population of the township, 1128.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
•   1872 - Three young sons of Mr. Miller, of Sharon, Mass., were drowned in that town the other day, by breaking through the ice.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  February 24, 1872
  
•   1886 - The editor of the Sharon (Mass.) Advocate has bone into the marrying business as a little side speculation.
  In a recent issue of his paper he says: "Persons intending marriage are reminded that the editor of the Advocate has had his commission as justice of the peace renewed by his Excellency Governor Robinson. Brother editors will be married to Sharon ladies free."
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  June 19, 1886
  
• Sharon Massachusetts, 1890
  Sharon occupies the highlands which form the water-shed of streams flowing in opposite directions — northeasterly towards Massachusetts or southwesterly towards Narragansett Bay. It has for its boundaries Norwood on the north, Canton on the northeast, Stoughton on the east, Easton and Mansfield on... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Sharon
  Sharon, a post-village in Sharon township, Norfolk co., Mass., on the Boston & Providence Railroad, 17 miles S. by W. of Boston. It has several churches, and manufactures of cotton duck, carriages, trowels, &c. The town ship has 5 churches, and a large hotel on Massapoag Lake. Pop. of the township, ... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1896 - FOUND WATERY GRAVES
  Sharon, Mass., June 30. - What was intended to be a week’s enjoyable outing was brought to an abrupt and sad close at Lake Massapoag Monday afternoon. Assistant Pastor Rev. Joseph Maxwell, Choir Master Frederick Brackett, Clerk George R Keys and 16 choir boys of St John’s Episcopal church,... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1898 - ONLY FOUR KILLED IN WRECK.
  CASUALTIES AT SHARON NOT SO NUMEROUS AS AT FIRST REPORTED - TWO MAY NOT RECOVER.
  
  Sharon, Mass., Aug. 22. - In the excitement and confusion attending the clearing away of the wreckage caused by last night's collision on the New York, New Haven & Hartford road it was reported that seven were... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1906
  Sharon, a post- village in Sharon township (town), Norfolk co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 17 miles S. by W. of Boston. It has manufactures of cutlery, boxes, carriages, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 2060.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
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