Norwood Historical Society Home Page - history of Norwood, Ohio

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or
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This web site is written, researched and published entirely by members of the Norwood Historical Society. Rootsweb.com provides the free hosting of this site, for which the Norwood Historical Society is grateful. Click on the links at the top of each page in order to see rootsweb.com and ancestry.com web sites featuring extensive genealogical and historical information.

LAST UPDATE—November 8, 2009

Next meeting is in the Norwood Historical Society Archive Room at Norwood Community Center, Courtland Avenue (not the McCullough House, this month) - November 14, 2009, 2:00 p.m.

See list of updates.

—QUICK LINKS—
LINKS to other sites	Previous UPDATES
CALENDAR of Society Events	MEETING NOTES (unofficial)
CURATORS' CORNER	Society ARCHIVES
TRIVIA QUIZ	NORWOOD's NAME
HISTORIC ADDRESSES	RESEARCH HOMES
"THE PIKE" in 1896	SUBDIVISIONS
CHURCHES	CLUBS
ALLISON HIGH SCHOOL GRADS	pre-1905 BOARD of ED MEMBERS
NORWOOD book - 1894	DIRECTORY 1896

—MISSION STATEMENT–

The Norwood Historical Society was established on May 2, 1978 to promote the study and preservation of the history of Norwood, Ohio.
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The current mission statement is to collect, preserve, exhibit, interpret, publish and educate about the history of Norwood, Ohio.
This web site is part of that effort.

According to the United States Geological Survey, Norwood has the following geographical location: Latitude 39.1556149, Longitude -84.4596641.

The sections on this site are:

HOME - go to top of this page
SOCIETY - information directly related to the Norwood Historical Society, e.g., Society events and news, an event calendar and a link to Curators' Corner and Society Archives, both devoted to the Society's collections
PEOPLE - short bios and facts of some of Norwood's people referenced on this site and links to other Norwood people pages
COMPANIES - lists and histories of some of the many companies (and churches, clubs and other organizations) that have made Norwood their home
BUILDINGS — photographs and descriptions of some of Norwood's historic buildings and links to pages about other Norwood buildings, including homes
STREETS - a list and history of Norwood's streets
TRANSPORTATION - information on the omnibuses, street cars, buses, railroads, etc. that are a part of Norwood's history and development
BOOKS - The complete text of the 1894 book "Norwood, Her Homes and Her People", the 1896 Norwood Directory, excerpts from other books and a list of resource documents.
CLIPPINGS - "clippings," related to Norwood, from newspapers, books and other documents.
DATES - historical dates
GOVERNMENT - historic facts about Norwood's government
SCHOOLS - links and information about the history of Norwood schools
ODDS & ENDS - miscellaneous information about Norwood — mainly links to various Norwood related pages on and off this site

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