Sharon, Pennsylvania

Sharon is a city located in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. Sharon was settled in 1795. It was a borough until the twentieth century. Thanks to its large coal deposits, Sharon was once a major industrial center, with rolling mills, boiler and machine shops, furnaces, flour mills, ordnance works, and manufactories of explosives, nails, horse collars, spokes, chains, stoves, and lumber products. In 1900, the population was 8,916 persons; in 1910, 15,270 persons; in 1920, 21,747 persons; and 25,622 people lived in Sharon in 1940. Today there is still some steel and metalworking as well as other manufacturing, but like most of America the city has been the victim of deindustrialization; most of the city's job growth today is in the service sector. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 16,328.

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