![]() In 1929 they voted to add a Study Club to the organization and later became the Norwood Federated Women’s Club. On November 13, 1928, several ladies formed the Norwood Chorus club which objectives were: the improvement of themselves and the fostering and maintaining of a desirable community. However, in 1912, the people of Norwood voted all the saloons out of town. The first saloon license was issued to John King in 1905. The first town ordinance to be passed prohibited the carrying of dangerous weapons within the town of Norwood, requiring all cowboys to check their guns and hunting knives at the livery or the town hall. ![]() John Davis also owned the first blacksmith shop and invented the famous Davis bit, a bridle bit used on saddle horses. In 1898, John Davis built the Western Motel which was operated by Mrs. In 1896, Charlie and Richard McKeever opened the first sawmill, which led to a building boom with lumber readily available. The Norwood Tribune was printed in a leanto on the Log Cabin. The first newspaper, the Norwood Tribune, was published on March 19, 1891. The first school which was established in 1888. Taken with the second 80-acre parcel with the fine spring that Wright had chosen, Joseph offered to buy his preemption, which Wright accepted, and sold for $100. Riding from his weigh station, possibly looking for some land to settle and farm, he met up with F. Joseph operated a weigh station at the foot of Keystone Hill near Telluride and, like many others, may have heard rumors of the promise of the area on the mesa to the west. Wright had the opportunity to complete his filing by building a cabin and fencing in the are on the second 80 acres, a man by the name of Edwin Joseph came on to scene. The cost to preempt was $1.25 per acre with $1.00 going to the Native Americans and $0.25 to the Government.īefore F. In addition, he preempted another 80 acres up toward the southern end of the mesa where there was an extremely good spring, one of the finest in the entire country, which flowed a dandy stream of water year round.Ī preemption was the name of the transaction when making a claim in Native American land. Wright was thus able to find the numbers of the parcels that he wanted and preempted on 80 acres, at about the middle of the western edge of the mesa. The Hayden Survey had marked all of the area on the mesa into townships and sections. Wright located his desired piece of land and soon traveled to Lake City to file with the Land Office. Wright came upon the mesa that had been discovered by the aforementioned prospectors and saw a wonderful opportunity in front of him for ranching raising cattle. Word soon spread about this huge area of unclaimed, unused area of grassland.Ī man by the name of F. After looking the area over, the two miners went back to their home camp at the Keokuk placer camp near Saltado Canyon and likely reported to the other members of their party what they had seen. From the rim of the canyon they could see all the way to Utah and the vast grassland in front of them extended to the horizon. Legend has it that in 1877, two placer miners, working their way down the San Miguel River from Telluride, staking placer claims and looking for deposits of gold in the river, climbed out of the canyon one day to see what the country looked like above. Accounts of this area contained in the Hayden Survey of 1876 described a spectacular valley with wide, clear flowing grasslands, surrounding the valleys, stretching for miles. For thousands of years the Utes utilized this fruitful mesa for camping, fishing and hunting and gathering. Since Wright’s Mesa was discovered by miners traveling from Telluride in the late 1800s, ranching and agricultural heritage have continued to run deep in the lives of Norwood’s residents. The Ute Indians were the original settlers of the area known as Wright’s Mesa.
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