Norwood is the third most populous city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and an enclave of the larger city of Cincinnati. The population was 19,207 at the 2010 census. Originally fixed as an into the future suburb of Cincinnati in the wooded countryside north of the city, the Place is characterized by older homes and tree-lined streets.

The very old humans in the area now known as Norwood are believed to have been Pre-Columbian become old people of the Adena culture. Norwood Mound, a primeval earthwork mound built by the Adena, is located in Norwood and listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. The Adena build up the mound at the location of Norwood’s present-day Water Tower Park, which is the highest land elevation in the city and one of the highest in whatever of Hamilton County. Archaeologists believe the mound was built at this site due to the high elevation and was used by the Adena for religious ceremonies and smoke signaling.

Native American mounds are not uncommon in Ohio and several were located in Downtown Cincinnati at the become old of initiation of the first white settlers. However, by 1895, the Norwood Mound was the only long-lasting mound in the vicinity of Cincinnati.” The mound has never been excavated, but it is reported that many artifacts found in the Place by into the future Norwood settlers in the 1800s made taking place the original nucleus of the Native American Art Collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. In the early-20th century, Norwood High School named their sports team mascot the Indians in rave review of this local Native American heritage.

In 1787, the United States Congress customary the Northwest Territory, and John Cleves Symmes, Congressman from New Jersey, purchased 311,682 acres (126,133 ha) of the territory (the Symmes Purchase), within which the vanguard Norwood is located. One year later, the first enduring settlement upon the banks of the Ohio River in what would far along become Cincinnati was established. In 1793, General “Mad Anthony” Wayne led several companies of troops from Fort Washington in Cincinnati to advance adjoining a unfriendly tribe of Native Americans encamped upon the banks of the reachable Millcreek in what is now St. Bernard. Historians agree to that a company of troops under the paperwork of General Wayne made their pretension through Norwood during this stir up and widened an dated Native American trail, which followed the passageway of present-day Smith Road, Montgomery Road, and Carthage Avenue. In 1859, an prematurely Norwood swashbuckler named Joseph G. Langdon claimed to have found a bullet buried in the heart of an oak tree on his Norwood property left by Anthony Wayne’s troops 66 years earlier.