History of Sharon, Massachusetts, USA

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, &c.: annual value, about $75,000. Sharon is a very pleasant town; the scenery around Mashapoag, the Indian names of the place, is highly pleasing. There is good fishing in this pond. This town was incorporated in 1765. It is 18 miles S.S.W. from Boston, 8 S. from Dedham, and 24 N. by E. from Providence, R.I. Population, 1837, 1,093.

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.

Distance from Dedham, 8 miles ; from Boston, 18.

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.

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."

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 the southeast, Foxborough on the southwest, and Walpole on the west. It lies at the middle of the southern side of Norfolk County, 22 miles southwest of Boston by the Boston and Providence Railroad; whose stations here are Sharon and Sharon Heights, and Massapoag Pond in summer. The post-offices are the first and East Sharon.

The assessed area of the town is 13,764 acres. There are above 1000 acres of forest, including white and pitch pine, oak, elm, chestnut and maple. The flora generally is rich and various. There is found here a wood violet that is very large and fragrant. The chief rock is sienite, and there is much iron-ore at one or more places. The whole extent of the town is...

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, 1330.