Norwood, Ohio

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Norwood, Ohio, a city of Hamilton County, northeast of Cincinnati, of which city it is a residential suburb, on the Baltimore Ohio Southwestern, the Pennsylvania and the Norfolk Western railroads. It is delightfully situated on a site of great natural beauty and is a popular residence place for many Cincinnati business men. It is also a manufacturing city of considerable importance, many of the establishments being noted for their excellent equipment. The industrial establishments include elastic bookcase works, a playing-card factory, enamel-sign works, lithograph works, a paper-bag factory, a carriage and wagon factory, hardware and iron-casting works, wood-mill workshops and laundry-machine shops. There are many fine public buildings and a number of branch libraries of the Cincinnati Public Library. Norwood was settled in 1790, incorporated as a village in 1888 and received a city charter in 1903. Population in 1920, 24,966.