The community's most historic building is the Sharon Temple, once the meeting house of the Children of Peace (or Davidites).

It is part of the musical, political, religious and architectural heritage of Ontario and is now a museum and National Historic Site of Canada.

The Children of Peace constructed a series of meeting houses on Willson's farm, which became the core of the utopian community they called Hope.

Before 2001, the nearest interchange was a couple of kilometres south at Davis Drive in Newmarket.

At a local level Sharon is located in East Gwillimbury Ward 2 and represented by two town councillors.