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Sharon, PA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Sharon  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Sharon Home page. The Sharon Home page provides as much information as possible on Sharon. Knowing Sharon’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sharon’s Home page, you will also find Sharon’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Sharon has a population of 13101. 47.2% of Sharon’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.8 are female. 34.7% of Sharon is married and 52.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $64,653, and the average rent is $575. Household median income in Sharon is $31,777, and the individual median income is $21,501. Sharon’s Ethnic is the following: White(78.8%), Black(14.7%), Multiple(4.7%), Hispanic(2.3%), Asian(1.2%), Other(0.5%), Native(0.2%).


The Sharon area was first settled in 1795. It was incorporated as a borough on October 6, 1841, and incorporated as a city on December 17, 1918. The city operated under the Pennsylvania third-class city code until 2008, at which point it adopted a home rule charter under which the elected position of mayor was replaced with a hired city manager and financial officer. The founding families of Sharon first settled on a flat plain bordering the Shenango River, between two hills on the southwestern edge of what is today Sharon's downtown business district.


According to local legend, the community received its name from a Bible-reading settler who likened the location to the Plain of Sharon in Israel. Initially a center of coal mining, Sharon's economy transitioned to iron and steelmaking and other heavy industry after the arrival of the Erie Extension Canal in the 1840s.


Following extensive national deindustrialization of the 1970s and '80s, the city's economy diversified and is now based primarily on light industry, education, health care, and social services. Prior to Prohibition in 1919, Sharon was once home to a large commercial beer brewery, Union Brewing Co., which was forced to close its doors like many U.S.


breweries of the era. The Frank H. Buhl Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.Sharon is the home of the original Quaker Steak & Lube, which opened in 1974, and formerly The Vocal Group Hall of Fame.


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