Sharon (Vermont)

Sharon
Baxter Library in Sharon
Location in Vermont
Sharon
Basic data
Foundation :	July 30, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 53 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 53 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,139 (as of 2010)
Population density :	11.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	103.8 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) of which 102.6 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	449 m
Postal code :	05065
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-63775
GNIS ID :	1462204
Website :	sharonvt.net

Sharon is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 1,502 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Sharon is in northeast Windsor County. The White River flows through the town of Sharon coming from the west in a south-easterly direction to flow into the Connecticut River a little later . The town is crossed by various rivers, most of which flow into the White River, but also partly into the Connecticut River. There are several lakes in the area of ​​the town, such as Crescent Lake in the northeast, Standing Pond in the northwest or Mitchell Pond in the southeast. Sharon is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains , the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as the crow flies between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Strafford , 5.4 mi
• Northeast: Thetford , 12.7 mi
• East: Norwich , 7.7 miles
• Southeast: Hartford , 4.2 mi
• South: Pomfret , 9.0 km
• Southwest: Barnard , 14 mi
• West: Royalton , 8.5 miles
• Northwest: Tunbridge , 4.2 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Sharon is between −7.8 ° C (18  ° F ) in January and 20.5 ° C (69 ° F) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfall between October and May is well over two meters (with a peak in January of almost 50 cm) about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Sharon around 1906

Sharon was founded on August 17, 1761 as one of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . The grand went to John Taylor and 62 other settlers. The first town meeting took place on November 30, 1761 in Plainfield. The survey work was carried out by Joshua Dunlap and in the spring of 1763 the first cultivation areas were created. In 1764 the town was placed under the jurisdiction of the Province of New York and was part of the former Cumberland County . When Cumberland County was divided in 1772, the towns north of Sharon came to Gloucester County, and the people of Sharon thought they would be in that county too. The mistake cleared when the Vermont Republic was founded in 1777 . When Cumberland County was divided in 1781, Sharon remained in the newly formed Windsor County.

Sharon was attacked alongside Royalton and Tunbridge in the Royalton Raid on October 16, 1780 by a group of 300 Mohawk warriors led by Lieutenant Houghton of the British Army. The settlements along the White River were burned down. Two residents of Sharon were deported to Canada.

Joseph Smith , founder of Latter-day Saints and Prophet of Mormonism , was born in 1805 in Sharon.

During the New England Hurricane in 1827, Sharon was badly damaged by the floods of the White River.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Sharon, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										569
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1158	1363	1431	1459	1371	1240	1111	1013	1012	737
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	709	585	545	569	530	470	485	541	828	1211
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1411	1502

Culture and sights

Parks

In the northeast is the Charles Downer State Forest, founded in 1910, covering 285 hectares. There, in 1930, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a lake that is now used for boating. Summer camps for children are held in the Civilian Conservation Corps buildings in the State Forest today.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 89 and Vermont State Route 14 run along the White River . Vermont State Route 132 branches off to the northeast in Village Sharon .

The Windsor – Burlington railway runs through Sharon.

Public facilities

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover is the closest hospital for Sharon.

The Baxter Memorial Library is located on Route 14 in Village Sharon.

education

Sharon Elementary School includes classes from pre-school and kindergarten through 6th grade.

With the Sharon Academy there is a middle and high school in Sharon. This school is partly a private school.

The Vermont Independent School of Art is located in Sharon.

Sharon is part of the White River Valley Supervisory Union .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Smith (1805–1844), founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Robby Mook (* 1979), Democratic Party political advisor and strategist, campaign manager for Hillary Clinton
• John Spaulding (1790-1870), politician, Vermont State Treasurer
• Charley Parkhurst (1812–1879), coachman, after his death it turned out that he was a woman

literature

• Lewis Cass Aldrich, Frank R. Holmes (Eds.): History of Windsor County Vermont. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse NY 1891, pp. 746 ff. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Sharon, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from January 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sharon in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 16, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Sharon, Vermont (VT 05065) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on October 16, 2016 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} History of Windsor County, Vermont. In: archive.org. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Sharon, Vermont. In: uppervalleynhvt.com. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
7. ↑ An Uphill Town Underwater: The flood that made history in Sharon, Vermont University of Vermont; Gregory Baldwin, accessed October 16, 2016
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Downer State Forest | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed October 16, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Axis Web Design: Camp Downer | History. (No longer available online.) In: campdowner.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2016 ; accessed on October 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Sharon, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
12. ^ Baxter Memorial Library. In: sharonvtlibrary.com. Baxter Memorial Library, accessed October 16, 2016 (American English). 
13. ↑ Sharon Elementary School | Learning. Community. Respect. | Sharon, VT. In: sharonelementary.org. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
14. ↑ The Sharon Academy |. In: sharonacademy.org. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Home. In: sevenstarsarts.org. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
16. ^ White River Valley Supervisory Union | Vermont. In: wrvsu.org. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .