Walter A. Norwood

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 5 dated events in the chronology →

1. about 1828 Dr. Walter A. Norwood opens a medicine shop opposite Alsobrook's hotel Dr. Norwood's medicine shop stood on Thomas H. Taylor's half of Lot #14, probably in Taylor's old store building, which Norwood later bought. From 1841 the shop housed the practice of Drs. Jones and Moore. People: Thomas H. Taylor, Walter A. NorwoodSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 57
2. June 22, 1831 Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill During commencement week a meeting adopted a constitution on Benjamin M. Smith's motion, elected Simmons J. Baker president and made professors Elisha Mitchell, William Hooper and James Phillips its executive committee. The Institute met at the next few commencements and enrolled about 130 members before it lapsed. People: Elisha Mitchell, James Phillips, Walter A. NorwoodSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 339
3. 1834 Dr. Walter A. Norwood closes his medicine shop and moves to Hillsborough Norwood gave up his Franklin Street shop and left for Hillsborough. Elisha Mitchell owned the land and building by the end of the year and soon sold them on credit to Isaac Partridge for a hotel. People: Walter A. NorwoodSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 69
4. 1840 Free people of color make up most of Dr. Walter A. Norwood's Hillsborough household In the 1840 census, as the Burwell School task force read it against the 1839 Bailey map of Hillsborough, Dr. Walter A. Norwood headed a household of five in which everyone but the doctor was a free person of color.Search the index · Historic Hillsborough Commission: Enslaved and Free People of Color Who Lived and Worked at the Burwell School, task force report (2019), p. 44
5. Early 1842 Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary A Literary Association was formed at Hillsborough in early 1842 with Frederick Nash as president; James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones and Robert Burwell as vice presidents; Dennis Heartt as secretary; and Walter A. Norwood as treasurer. Heartt, a charter member, had helped organize it. People: Frederick Nash, Cadwallader Jones, Robert Armistead Burwell, James Strudwick Smith, Walter A. NorwoodSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Chronicle, February 9, 1842, page 2