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PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (1)Photo: Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History · Sharon Township

23% of Sharon Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 11 old photos and papers, maps from 1934 on, and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
11old photos & papers
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Sharon Township’s archive · credits on each photo

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.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Sharon Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Millport
1834–1967
Sharon Centre
1839–1923
East Sharon
1850–1909
Honeoye
1882–1922
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
East SharonHoneoyeMillportSharon CenterSunnyside
Gone or out of use
Plank Road Schoolschool

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

The story

How Sharon Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sharon Township.

Read it all →

When Potter County was created on December 5, 1810, the whole county was in one township, Eulalia Township, Pennsylvania.

The next division leading to Sharon Township was the organization of Roulette Township, on January 29, 1816. It included the present area of Sharon, as well as current Roulette Township, Pleasant Valley Township and Clara Township.

Finally, on February 26, 1828, Sharon (and Clara Township) was created out of Roulette Township.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Sharon Township, 1834 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1834Post officeThe Millport post office opens
  3. 1839Post officeThe Sharon Centre post office opens
  4. 1850Post officeThe East Sharon post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1905In the archiveState Street
  7. 1909Post officeThe East Sharon post office closes
  8. 1923Post officeThe Sharon Centre post office closes
  9. 1934On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 1942In the archiveTransformer manufacture. Spools of copper wire used in transformer manufacture. Westingho…
  11. 1967Post officeThe Millport post office closes
By decade

Sharon Township, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1900s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1900s7 items
State Street1905State StreetShanango River scene1905Shanango River sceneView on Shanango River1905View on Shanango RiverSt. Johns Episcopal Church1905St. Johns Episcopal ChurchF.H. Buhl Club1905F.H. Buhl ClubSteel and Iron Mills1905Steel and Iron MillsResidence of Mr. John Stevenson1905Residence of Mr. John Stevenson
1910s–1930snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
1940s4 items
Transformer manufacture. Spools of copper wire used in transformer manufacture. Westinghouse1942Transformer manufacture. Spools of copper wire used i…Transformer manufacture. Part of a large Eastern electrical plant where large transformer tanks are shaped and welded. …1942Transformer manufacture. Part of a large Eastern elec…Transformer manufacture. These bus bars are made primarily of copper; they're part of the workings of giant transformer…1942Transformer manufacture. These bus bars are made prim…Transformer manufacture. Essential to the efficiency of thousands of plants producing war materials are these distribut…1942Transformer manufacture. Essential to the efficiency …
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today4 recent
PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (3)2022PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (3)PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (2)2022PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (2)PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (1)2022PA 44 nb in Sharon Township (1)Map of Potter County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Sharon Township2008Map of Potter County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Sharo…Map
On the map

Sharon Township on the map, 1934 to 1969

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sharon Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Sharon Township on the 1934 USGS mapSharon Township on the 1969 USGS map1934Coudersport sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Sharon Township.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

State Street
Retake this viewState Street, 1905

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Sharon Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
People over time

Sharon Township, census by census

02004006008001,00020002020Peak: 907

Between 789 and 907 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sharon Township’s Wikipedia page.

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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R
Riki LindhomeAmerican actress · b. 1979
Adam McMullenAmerican politician · b. 1872
Charles Monroe SheldonAmerican writer · b. 1857
Jason DunhamUnited States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recip… · b. 1981
K
Kathryn WoolardAmerican linguistic anthropologist · b. 1950
C
Clair Alan BrownEnglish botanist · b. 1903
Help out

Finish Sharon Township’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewState Street: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

ShinglehouseIts storyB+Pleasant Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOswayo TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCeres TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Sharon Township’s history

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (11), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.