As previously announced, the Library’s website is moving to a new vendor due to our current vendor closing down. The launch of our new site is scheduled for today, Wednesday, Sept 10 - and possibly into tomorrow. We are keeping our website address (sharonpubliclibrary.org) so this should be a seamless transition, with no interruption to service anticipated. If you experience issues with the website today (Wed, Sept 10) please contact the Adult Services Dept at reference@sharon.ocln.org. Thank you for your patience as we make this change..

Thanks to funding provided by the Digital Commonwealth, Sharon Public Library has been able to digitize parts of its historical collection to provide off-site access to the following:

Image Collection in Digital Commonwealth
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Map Collection in Digital Commonwealth
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Marsengold Sharon High School Yearbooks

Click on year below to view full text of yearbook:

1941  1942  1943  1944  1945  1946

1947  1948  1949  1950  1951  1952

1953  1954  1955  1956  1957  1958

1959  1960  1961  1962  1963  1964

1965  1966  1967  1968  1969  1970

1971  1972  1973  1974  1975  1976

1977  1978  1979  1980  1981  1982

1983  1984  1985  1986  1987  1988

1989  1990  1991  1992  1993  1994

1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000

2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006

2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  2012

2013  2014  2015

Deborah Sampson (Samson) Gannett Collection

Deborah Sampson, also known as Deborah Samson, is a famous and beloved local hero. Born in Plympton, MA in 1760, she is renowned for having disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Sampson served for 17 months under the name Robert Shurtlieff before being honorably discharged in 1783. After the war, she married Benjamin Gannett and the two settled in Sharon, MA, where the Gannett family farm was located.

Learn more in our Deborah Sampson Local Guide or view the digitized items below.  If you are visiting Sharon, consider taking the Local Tour Map.

A black and white sketch of a young person with long, wavy hair, wearing a ruffled top and looking slightly to the side, set against a plain background.
Historic Buildings
Vital Statistics (Births, Deaths, Wills, Epitaphs)
Sharon Historical Society Early Documents
Sharon Town Records
School Photos and Documents
Diaries, Scrapbooks, Memoirs
Sharon Woman Suffrage League, Reports
Portraits of Sharon Residents
Sharon Newspapers Online (1883 – 2022; print newspaper ceased publication)
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