Sharon, Connecticut One Place Study

Date: 1739
Location: Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Connecticut United_States

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Contents 1 Sharon, Connecticut One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.3 History 1.4 Population 1.4.1 Notables 2 Sources

Sharon, Connecticut One Place Study

The town of Sharon was sold at New Haven in 1738. Of the 49 purchasers of rights,16 became settlers, largely from Colchester and Lebanon, and a town was incorporated in 1739. Sharon is made up of mountains on the east and a rolling plain to the west, along the New York line. The name was taken from the Biblical Plain of Sharon. There was an extensive iron industry, with related manufacturers. The village street is one of the most beautiful in Connecticut, and there is a large summer colony. The town contains portions of the Housatonic State Forest.

• Wikidata: Item Q2446162, en:Wikipedia
• [[Martha Cole Juckett (1866-1920)] [[Elijah Juckett (1759-1839)]] Elijah Juckett (1838-1904) Sarah E Cole (1843-1888) [[Cotton Mather Smith (1730-1806)] [[Joel Bordwell Pratt (1798-1871)]] [[Eliza Bennett (1804-1870)]] [[Joseph Fletcher Pratt (1906-1984)]]

Name

Sharon was created from Colchester and Lebanon in 1739.

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: United States of America

State/Province: Connecticut

County: Litchfield

GPS Coordinates: 41.87926, -73.47679

Elevation: 216.1 m or 709.0 feet

History

Elijah Juckett was originally from old Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He served faithfully and honorably through the Revolutionary War and was a sergeant in the light infantry under General La Fayette. Cotton Mather Smith was a preacher at the Sharon Congregational Church.

Population

635 in 2020

Notables

• Kevin Bacon

Sources

http://members.skyweb.net/~channy/CTGuideShar.html

http://archive.org/details/historyoflitchfi00jwle/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater

Ancestry.com. General history of the town of Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn.: from its first settlement [database online]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

https://archive.org/stream/generalhistoryof00sedg/generalhistoryof00sedg_djvu.txt

https://litchfieldmagazine.com/onourradar/history-the-smith-family-of-sharon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon,_Connecticut