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History · Sharon Township

Sharon Township’s post office opened in 1831, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

1831first post office
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How Sharon Township began

When was Sharon Township founded?

1831

The Sharon Township post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Sharon (1831), Olivegreen (1857) and Rich Valley (1884), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 330195 years
Founding year: the first Sharon Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Sharon Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Sharon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Sharon Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1831: 195 years of Sharon Township.
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Start Sharon Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sharon Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Sharon
1831–1984
Olivegreen
1857–1925
Rich Valley
1884–1905
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Olive GreenRich ValleySharon
Gone or out of use
Danford SchoolschoolForest Grove SchoolschoolGordon SchoolschoolOlivegreen Post Officepost officePickinpaugh SchoolschoolRich Valley Post Officepost officeWalters SchoolschoolWhites Schoolschool
8cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sharon Township
DanfordForest GroveKildowManchesterMarquisOld SharonSailorSharon

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Sharon Township, 1831 to 1984

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1831Post officeThe Sharon post office opens
  3. 1857Post officeThe Olivegreen post office opens
  4. 1884Post officeThe Rich Valley post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1905Post officeThe Rich Valley post office closes
  7. 1925Post officeThe Olivegreen post office closes
  8. 1984Post officeThe Sharon post office closes
The story

How Sharon Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sharon Township.

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Sharon was laid out in 1834. The community takes its name from Sharon Township. A post office was established at Sharon in 1831, and remained in operation until 1984.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Sharon Township

Nobody well known was born in Sharon Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist · b. 1904
Don Carlos BuellAmerican Union Army General · b. 1818
James W. DawesAmerican politician · b. 1844
Melvin Clark GeorgeAmerican politician · b. 1849
D
Dan HughesAmerican basketball coach · b. 1955
Frederick Samuel DellenbaughAmerican explorer and artist · b. 1853
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Olive Township3 historic placesAManchester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenter TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNoble Township2 historic placesA

Questions about Sharon Township’s history

What year was Sharon Township founded?

The Sharon Township post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.