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Residence of N.N. Whitaker, Esq., Sheridan, Chautauqua Co., N.Y, 1867 · Wikimedia Commons

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The area was first settled c. 1804 and town of Sheridan was founded in 1827 from parts of the towns of Hanover and Pomfret.

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