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Norwood (Town in Massachusetts)

a town in Massachusetts in Norfolk co., 14 miles S. W. of Boston.

It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It is an important industrial center and has canneries, iron foundries, and manufactories of leather goods, ink, and glue. There are also include bandanas, bombazines, shawls, several important printing shops and It has a hospital, a crapes, gauzes, damasks, camelets, book-binderies.

Memorial Library and other important muslins, silk, and cotton fabrics, and crapes, gauzes, damasks, camelets, shoes; also iron and brass foundries, public buildings. Pop. (1910) 8,014; oil, corn and mustard mills, etc. Pop. (1917) 108,877.

NORWICH, a city and one of the county-seats of New London co., Conn.; on the Thames river, and on the Central Vermont and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads; 13 miles N. of New London. It comprises the villages of Greeneville, Yantic, Norwich Town, Fair Ground, Norwich, and Taftville.

Here are a Free Academy, the Otis Free Academy, a public hospital, libraries, electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactures of firearms, locks, cotton and woolen fabrics, printing presses, bicycle chains, type, silk ribbons, electrical supplies, leather belting, machinery, rolled and cast iron, harness, stoves, furnaces, nickel-plated goods, hosiery, etc. Pop. (1910) 20,367; (1920) 29,685.

NORWICH, a town and county-seat of Chenango co., N. Y.; on the Chenango river, the Chenango canal, the Lackawanna, and the New York, Ontario and Western rail railroads; 41 miles N. N. E. of Binghamton. It contains a stone court house, circulating libraries, National banks, and several weekly newspapers, and has manufactures of pianos, blast-furnaces, knitting goods, hammers, carriages, drugs and medicines, silk goods, chairs, machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,422; (1920) 8,268.