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Norwood History

    Like most communities, Norwood was once farmland.

    In 1933 what is now called Norwood community was called Tillerytown. A sawmill stood where the Tillery Theater was for many years. Later came McClain's Nursery and Wallace's ice cream, where everyone went on Sunday for good old homemade ice cream. The Airplane Service Station was and still is a landmark. About the same time the Treemont Tourist Camp was built.

    In 1943 a civic-minded couple Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter moved into this section from Ohio. They and four other people met in Jude Hockinjopsh's garage and formed a civic club. This group later met in the basement of Norwood Baptist Church, in Kent McClain's Nursery, and in the Norwood Fire Hall. Later they bought land on Merchants Road and with their own hands erected the Norwood Civic Club building which was the center of activity in Norwood.

    This group of six men named the community. Hunter said that there was a suburb of Cincinnati called Norwood. A proposal to rename the community Norwood passed.