On 4th Street north of Gennett Road, on the left when traveling north.
Norwood School District
No.1 was organized in 1867,
one year before Orwin and
Eliza P. Adams and Orvis D.
Wood platted this village.
Thirty-five children attended
lessons in a log building. In
1869 a frame schoolhouse
was built on land . . . — — Map (db m234150) HM
On Lake Street west of 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.
Norwood was settled in 1866 when Orvis Wood, Lucius Pearl, and Orwin Adams built a dock and sawmill on the shore of Lake Michigan. The town thrived as a lumber shipping center with sawmills, a company store, and blacksmith shops. In 1884 the Norwood . . . — — Map (db m98099) HM
