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The town of Norwood, Kansas was founded on this site in 1873 as a stop
on the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Ft. Gibson railroad. The town was named
after a popular novel of the time by Henry Ward Beecher. Population
peaked in 1900 at fifty persons. At that time the town included the
buildings shown on this map plus three homes just to the east along
Stafford Road. Norwood was established because the railroad facilitated
shipment of agricultural produce from the area and transport of
household items and agricultural machinery to it. In the 1920's, with
the advent of the automobile, the population began to disperse to
Baldwin City and Ottawa. By the mid-1940's Norwood was gone.
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