The agricultural community situated south of a bend in the Mississinnewa River in Delaware Township’s section 16 has been known as Clifton, Sharon, and Zehner Mill¹ at different points in history. It seems that, while the village was platted as Clifton by Abraham Cline in 1849, the post office was called Sharon and the local mill -the community’s most prominent feature- was operated by Benjamin Zehner². In 1880, a local schoolhouse -known as Sharon³– was home to several Republican nominating conventions⁴.