Map of Sharon, Connecticut in 2026

If you grew up in Sharon, or you’ve ever driven Route 4 out to the Cornwall Bridge, you’ll find your town on this map just as it stands in 2026. Look for your road. Amenia Road, Cornwall Road, Benton Hill Road, Clark Hill Road, Mudgetown Road, Hosier Road, Smith Road, Mountain Road, Boland Road and Cole Road are all printed by name, along with many more.

Sharon is in Litchfield County, in the northwest corner of Connecticut, with New York along its western edge and the Housatonic River on the east.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data, and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded hills of the Northwest Highlands, running down to the Housatonic, come from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The streets and the town line come from the Census Bureau, right down to roads like the Cornwall Sharon Turnpike. Sharon, Sharon Valley and Amenia Union are printed by name. A guide of 34 numbered landmarks runs along the bottom, with the National Register sites marked, and we checked those against National Park Service records.

A Town on a Long Green

The Mattabesec people lived here first and called the place Poconnuck. The General Assembly incorporated Sharon in 1739 and named it for the Plain of Sharon, a fertile land in the Bible. That’s the year on the title panel: Incorporated 1739. It’s the third largest town in Connecticut by area, bounded by Salisbury on the north, Cornwall across the river, Kent on the south and Dutchess County, New York, on the west.

Sharon grew as a crossroads town and was at its most prosperous in the early 1800s. Toll roads came through around then, among them the Goshen and Sharon Turnpike and the Sharon and Cornwall Turnpike, and they had a marked effect on the town. The railroads passed it by, but iron mines and furnaces helped it along. By the 1880s the iron trade was fading and summer visitors were arriving. Between 1880 and 1920 well-to-do families fixed up old houses or built big Colonial Revival houses on the South Green, and the Sharon Inn, at the south end of the green across from the clock tower, drew guests like Thomas Edison, who came in 1907 with fourteen people in tow. Click here to learn more about the history of Sharon.

The Sharon Historic District

The cluster of numbers along Main Street is the town center, which the guide marks as the Sharon Historic District (13). It’s a long, narrow district stretched along Main Street and centered on a long town green, with churches, civic buildings and houses from the 1700s through the 1900s. Federal houses from the town’s best years line the green, and the south end has what’s called one of the highest concentrations of Colonial Revival estates in the state. The district has four church buildings, a Romanesque library of 1893 and a memorial clock tower, and it was listed on the National Register in 1993.

Sharon Town Hall (5), the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon (14) and the Sharon Congregational Church (31) stand close together in the center. On the east side of Main Street, at number 18, opposite the First Congregational Church, is a brick house that the guide numbers three times. It’s the Ebenezer Gay House (25), built in 1775 and 1776 by Ebenezer Gay, a businessman who led the local militia in the Revolution. He apparently spent his own fortune supporting the war, and he died insolvent in 1787. Locals call it the Gay-Hoyt House, and the guide prints it as the Gay-Holt House Museum (12). Anne Hoyt left it to the Sharon Historical Society in 1951, and today it’s the Sharon Historical Society & Museum (33), with the society’s collections inside.

At the north end of the green, where Main Street bends east into North Main Street, is the George King House (7). Its oldest part is a brick wing of 1769. George King, a local businessman who supplied the army during the Revolution, bought it in 1783, and his family kept it until 1906. Later his great-great-granddaughter Caroline Brownson Hart brought it back into the family with her husband, Admiral Thomas C. Hart, who helped build up the Navy’s submarine fleet and served briefly in the United States Senate. Up the road at 129 North Main Street is the James Pardee House (24), built in 1782 of salmon-colored local brick by the son of John Pardee, one of Sharon’s founders.

At the far south end of the green, on South Main Street, is the Gov. Smith Homestead (28), a big stone house begun in 1765 by Simeon Smith, a doctor, druggist and militia leader. The stonework is said to have been overseen by an Italian craftsman. The war held up the finishing work, and in 1779 Smith hosted a meeting of doctors here that they called the first of its kind in the new United States. His nephew John Cotton Smith, Governor of Connecticut during the War of 1812, made it his home, and the Smiths kept it until 1915. The Sharon Playhouse (21) is a short way southwest of the center, Sharon Hospital (3) and Sharon Center School (9) are just north of it, and the Sharon Country Club (8) and the Benton Hill Preserve (23) are to the southwest.

Sharon Valley

West of the center, close to the New York line, is Sharon Valley. The town lived on farming until 1825, when its first iron furnace went up here. The valley had everything the business needed: water power from two creeks, forests for charcoal, sand, limestone in the hills and ore near Indian Lake. The Sharon Valley Iron Company started with 12 workers, and by 1850 it was the town’s largest employer. It built houses for its workers and a Carpenter Gothic office that’s now the Valley Tavern. In the valley, Asahel Hotchkiss made rakes, buckles and currycombs from local iron. The guide marks the village as the Sharon Valley Historic District (32), with its old houses, the ruins of a lime kiln and a lenticular iron truss bridge of 1880.

Veterans Field (1) is right beside it. After World War II the Sharon baseball team made it their home field. They played in the semi-pro Interstate Baseball League against Amenia, Millerton, Lakeville, Canaan and other towns, and big crowds came out on Sunday afternoons, honking their car horns for a good play. Mudge Pond Town Beach (29), up in the north of town, has a playground, swimming lanes and a changing pavilion along the pond.

Audubon Lands and the Housatonic

The Sharon Audubon Center (11), on Cornwall Bridge Road, covers 1,147 acres of forest with two ponds and 11 miles of trails. Clement and Keyo Ford gave their Bog Meadow Farm to the National Audubon Society in 1961, and the main building has a room honoring the nature writer Hal Borland. Out east, the Miles Wildlife Sanctuary (27) began with 740 acres owned by Emily Winthrop Miles, a poet, writer and artist, who left it to the Audubon Society in 1962.

Along the river, Housatonic Meadows State Park (15) covers 452 acres in Sharon and Cornwall, with camping, picnicking, canoeing and fly-fishing, and the Appalachian Trail crosses it. In 1933 men of the Civilian Conservation Corps cleared 45 acres here and planted 45,000 red pines, and a monument by the campground office honors Ranger Nate Strong. The trail runs a few miles through the east side of town near West Cornwall, and the guide marks the Appalachian Trail Scenic Open Space (17) there. Housatonic State Forest (26) reaches into Sharon too. It’s the only state forest in Connecticut that includes part of the Appalachian Trail.

Bridge No. 560 (19) is the Cornwall Bridge, which carries Route 7 and Route 4 over the Housatonic and the railroad. It’s a border site, standing in southeastern Sharon and southwestern Cornwall, and the village of Cornwall Bridge is on the Cornwall side. C.W. Blakeslee and Sons built it in 1930 with six open concrete arches, the longest 180 feet across the river. It has six open-spandrel concrete arches spanning 674 feet, a fairly large example of that kind of bridge, and it was listed on the National Register in 2004. The guide also lists the Moore Preserve (2), the D’Alton Preserve (4), the Bucksbaum Preserve (6), the Skiff Mountain Preserve (10) in the far south, the Laurel Trails Council Girl Scouts (16), Beardsley Pond (18), the Hamlin Preserve (20), the Goodbody Preserve (22), the Sharon Mountain Preserve (30) in the southeast and The Nature Conservancy Benton Hill Fen (34).

This map of Sharon makes a handsome addition to a living room, office, library or den, and it can even help teach children the geography and history of the town. It’s a thoughtful gift for anyone who calls Sharon home, grew up here, or moved away. Created by KNOWOL in 2026, it’s printed on museum quality archival paper in three sizes. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Sharon map.

Sources

• Sharon, Connecticut, Wikipedia
• Sharon, ConnecticutHistory.org
• Turnpikes and Transportation in Sharon, ConnecticutHistory.org
• The Rise of the Second Home Community in Sharon, ConnecticutHistory.org
• Sharon Historic District, Wikipedia
• Ebenezer Gay House, Wikipedia
• George King House, Wikipedia
• George King House, National Register nomination, National Park Service
• James Pardee House, Wikipedia
• Gov. Smith Homestead, Wikipedia
• Sharon Valley Historic District, Wikipedia
• Semi-Pro Baseball in Sharon, ConnecticutHistory.org
• Sharon Audubon Center, Wikipedia
• Housatonic Meadows State Park, Wikipedia
• Two Monuments to Sportsmen at Housatonic Meadows State Park, ConnecticutHistory.org
• Housatonic State Forest, Wikipedia
• Bridge No. 560 (Cornwall Bridge), Wikipedia