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Behind it are the United Church of Norwood and (faintly) St.
Official seal of Norwood, Massachusetts Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Norwood is part of the Greater Boston area.
The town was titled after Norwood, England.
Norwood is on the Neponset River, which runs all the way to Boston Harbor from Foxborough.
The Town of Norwood, officially formed in 1872, was until that time part of Dedham, known as the "mother of towns", as fourteen of the present communities of easterly Massachusetts lay inside its initial borders.
Long used as a hunting ground by Indians, Norwood was first settled by Ezra Morse in 1678. He set up a sawmill in what is now South Norwood, the part of town to which the first concentration of families, almost all of whom were farmers, migrated over the next half-century.
The Oak View Mansion, positioned in Norwood, was assembled by Francis Olney Winslow.
Norwood is positioned at 42 11 9 N 71 12 5 W (42.185974, -71.201661). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 10.6 square miles (27.3 km ), of which 10.5 square mile (27.1 km ) is territory and 0.1 square mile (0.2 km ) (0.66%) is water.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Stained-glass window in Norwood Town Hall depicting town seal. In the town, the populace was spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Norwood Public Schools operates seven schools, and an additional school institution, The Willett Early Childhood Center (serves preschool and kindergarten children).
The enhance elementary schools positioned in Norwood include: Balch, Callahan, Cleveland, Oldham, and Prescott.
Norwood has one enhance middle school, the Dr.
Coakley Middle School (serving 6th through 8th graders) (formerly Norwood Junior High South), where all five elementary schools combine.
Norwood also has a enhance high school, Norwood High School (NHS), (serves grades 9 12).
The initial Norwood High School, assembled in the 1920s, has been replaced by a new building, which opened in 2011.
Built in 2005, Universal Technical Institute is the newest post-secondary education center in Norwood.
The Fine Mortuary College in Norwood includes a one-room exhibition featuring antique embalming tables and centuries-old wooden coffins. A large cluster of automobile dealerships on Route 1 is known as the Norwood "Automile".
University Avenue in Norwood is the site of both semiconductor business Analog Devices Inc and medical software provider MEDITECH, Medical Information Technology, Inc., actually athwart the border in Westwood.
Norwood's town square is dominated by its town hall, the Norwood Memorial Municipal Building (Town Hall).
Tilton Memorial Carillon, one of nine carillons in Massachusetts and the seventh-largest in the United States.
Norwood Memorial Municipal Building (Town Hall).
Norwood was the long-time home of photographer and publisher Fred Holland Day.
The Day House is now a exhibition and the command posts of the Norwood Historical Society.
Climate data for Norwood, Massachusetts 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1895 present 1 is a primary artery through Norwood.
The stations are Norwood Depot, Norwood Central and Windsor Gardens.
Norwood Memorial Airport Ernie Boch, Jr., CEO, president, and spokesman of Boch Enterprises, a $1 billion company consisting primarily of automobile dealerships in Norwood, Massachusetts Rhoda Leonard, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, later a long time teacher in the Norwood Public Schools system. Official records for Norwood were kept at the COOP from December 1900 to May 1911, the Weather Bureau Office from June 1911 to February 1937, at various locations in and around the town/city from March 1937 to July 1942, and since August 1942.
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1, All County Subdivisions inside Massachusetts".
"Massachusetts by Place and County Subdivision - GCT-T1.
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
Elisabeth Mc - Gregor , executive director of the Norwood Historical Society, said she found the flap "kind of comical", and noted the seal probably includes another mistake.
Archived March 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
FUNERAL INDUSTRY FASCINATION GROWS: Mortuary school in Norwood opens exhibition to the public".
Norwood Library: Norwood Historical Records, "The building's 170-foot fortress accommodates a 50 bell carillon" Boston Globe, South Regional version 7/6/2013, Jean Lang: Norwood Town Hall gets a makeover: "Another concern is the carillon inside the tower.
"WMO Climate Normals for Norwood, MA 1961 1990".
"Monthly Averages for Norwood Memorial Airport".
"Charlie Bowles Statistics and History".
"Marty Callaghan Statistics and History".
Falla, Brian (2006), "Norwood's Natural", The Norwood Bulletin, October 5, 2006, p.
"Hebner's ties to Norwood remain a backbone of the story", a description of the making of a two-hour documentary on Hebner "Skip Lockwood Statistics and History".
"Ray Martin Statistics and History".
"Allen Ripley Statistics and History".
"Mike Smith Statistics and History".
"Bill Travers Statistics and History".
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Wikisource has the text of a 1921 Collier's Encyclopedia article about Norwood, Massachusetts.
Town of Norwood Industrial History of Norwood, Norwood Historical Society: Historical photographs and documents Norwood Public Access TV, Norwood public-access tv cable TV (NPA-TV) Norwood's Public-Access Station - a non-profit entity serving the Town of Norwood Norwood, MA - Index of Marriages and Deaths The Daily News Transcript A daily journal that covers Norwood.
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