The Norwood surname

In the chronology 21 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Norwood, Alves 2 entries, 1855–1864
  • 1855–1928: The Orange Guards, 1855–1928
  • June 15, 1864: The Orange Guards lose Alves Norwood near Petersburg, and Hillsborough buries him
• Norwood, Button 1 entry, 1928
  • by March 2, 1928: W. C. Coker lays off the Buttons residence colony, named for Button Norwood
• Norwood, E. G. 1 entry, 1913
  • 1913: The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood
• Norwood, Ed 1 entry, 1956
  • June 22, 1956: The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park
• Norwood, Hazel 1 entry, 1873
  • August 8, 1873: The Board of Education appoints Hazel Norwood county examiner
• Norwood, James 3 entries, 1885–1892
  • by August 3, 1885: John Wall Norwood, an elder of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church for half a century, dies
  • May 21, 1889: Hillsborough men organize the Orange Cattle Club
  • August 17, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold their county convention and name a ticket
• Norwood, James H. 2 entries, 1844–1889
  • by December 3, 1844: Hillsborough Academy appoints the Rev. John Witherspoon principal
  • July 5, 1889: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance elects S. T. Forrest president and keeps W. V. Andrews as secretary
• Norwood, John 2 entries, 1836–1917
  • 1836-1884: John Norwood begins forty-eight years as clerk of the Hillsborough Presbyterian session
  • July 1917: Nurse Mrs. R. B. Hayes starts a surgical dressings class in the Hillsborough Red Cross room
• Norwood, John Wall 1 entry, 1803
  • 1803: James Hogg sells Poplar Hill to his son-in-law William Norwood
• Norwood, John Wall 49 entries, 1815–1885
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• Norwood, Joseph C. 2 entries, 1841–1854
  • August 5, 1841: Orange County voters re-elect Joseph C. Norwood and John Taylor as court clerks
  • 1854: Judge John L. Bailey buys the Norwood house south of the Eno and names it Eno Lodge
• Norwood, Margaret Y. 1 entry, 1885
  • by August 3, 1885: John Wall Norwood, an elder of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church for half a century, dies
• Norwood, Mayor 6 entries, 1900–1902
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  • 1900–1908: Macadam for Hillsborough: the township road tax, bonds and paved streets, 1900–1908
  • 1900–1906: The Occoneechee Mountain quarry, its convicts and its Italian laborers, 1900–1906
  • May 7, 1901: Hillsborough elects Mayor Norwood and a five-member town board under its amended charter
  • May 30, 1901: Mayor Norwood breaks a tie to license Hillsborough's three saloons for another year
  • 1901–1930: Prohibition and the blockaders in Orange County, 1901–1930
  • by September 11, 1902: Mayor Norwood surfaces Hillsborough's sidewalks and crossings with crushed stone
• Norwood, Nathaniel 2 entries, 1821–1822
  • 22 September 1821: Elizabeth Witsman names Nathaniel Norwood as the father of a second child
  • 29 March 1822: Elizabeth Witsman is jailed after refusing to name the father of her third child
• Norwood, Thomas F. 1 entry, 1879
  • July 7, 1879: Chapel Hill merchant Thomas F. Norwood dies
• Norwood, W. A. 1 entry, 1851
  • March 22, 1851: Hillsborough citizens meet to bring the railroad through town on the north side of the river
• Norwood, Walter A. 9 entries, 1828–1850
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• Norwood, William 27 entries, 1784–1842
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• Norwood, William 1 entry, 1796
  • 1796–1814: Person Hall and the Main Building (South Building), 1796–1814
• Norwood, William A. 2 entries, 1850–1851
  • September-October 1850: Railroad engineers survey the North Carolina Railroad routes near Hillsborough
  • March 22, 1851: Hillsborough citizens meet to bring the railroad through town on the north side of the river
• Norwood, Zona 9 entries, 1971–1987
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  • 1971–1992: Carrboro's town government, 1971–1992
  • 1972–1994: Cable television in Orange County, 1972–1994
  • 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
  • November 8, 1983: Carrboro elects Jim Porto mayor and an aldermen board made up wholly of ABC members
  • March 27, 1984: Carrboro aldermen ban selling goods to motorists on the town's main streets
  • October 9, 1984: Carrboro aldermen approve the first reading of a new Alert Cable franchise that would add the Playboy Channel
  • September 11, 1984: Carrboro aldermen approve a 14-unit subdivision off West Main Street and narrow local street rights-of-way
  • February 28, 1984: Neighbors object to landfill land off Eubanks and Homestead roads, and Carrboro's aldermen delay the purchase vote
  • December 1, 1987: Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro

In books and archives 5 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Norwood family family, 3 works
• Norwood, William, 1767-1842 3 works
• Norwood, John Wilkins, 1 work
• Norwood, Raney 1 work
• Norwood, Robina Hogg, 1772-1860 1 work

In the historical records 344 records

177 deeds, 28 records of enslaved people, 24 marriages, 100 court minutes and 15 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Norwood marriages in full · Search the name in every collection