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[local] Norwood's got an interesting wikipedia page
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Higher education

The Fine Mortuary College in Norwood includes a one-room museum featuring antique embalming tables and centuries-old wooden coffins.[19]
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The Skating Club of Boston moved to Norwood in 2020.[citation needed]
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The Norwood High School hockey teams play at the facility.[citation needed]
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In addition to the rink, the facility features a fitness center, a pro shop, and a cafe. The Skating Club of Boston has a rich history in figure skating and has produced many world champions and Olympic medalists.[citation needed]
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Also of note, local bagel shop "Spot!" is currently seeking Guinness certification as the World's Largest Bagel Shop.[citation needed]
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A large cluster of automobile dealerships on Route 1 is known as the Norwood "Automile."[citation needed]
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The concept of having competing dealerships join together to publicize the "Automile" as an automobile shopping center was largely the work of Ernie Boch, famous in the Boston area for his ads urging people to "Come on down!"[citation needed]
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When Norwood separated from Dedham, they considered naming the new community Balch, after the Rev. Thomas Balch.[3]
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The Oak View Mansion, located in Norwood, was built by Francis Olney Winslow.[citation needed]
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Some of the most prominent figures hosted in Oak View were President and future Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft and President Calvin Coolidge.[citation needed]
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Abraham Lincoln passed through the town during his pre-inaugural tour of New England.[citation needed]
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During the American Revolution, there was a Minuteman company organized in the area.[citation needed]
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Norwood was the long-time home of photographer and publisher Fred Holland Day.[citation needed]
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The publishing firm of Copeland and Day was the American publisher of Oscar Wilde's Salome with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.[citation needed]
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The Day House is now a museum and the headquarters of the Norwood Historical Society. F. Holland Day Historic House Museum is located at 93 Day St.[citation needed]
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U.S. 1 is a major artery through Norwood, and a regional hub for commercial activity, dominated by strip malls and chain stores and restaurants for a 35-mile stretch between West Roxbury to Pawtucket, RI.)[citation needed]
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Three MBTA Commuter Rail stations on the Forge Park-495 line or Franklin Line, with daily service. The stations are Norwood Depot, Norwood Central and Windsor Gardens.[citation needed]
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Interstate 95 has one exit in town that also serves neighboring Canton. This is the main highway running between the Boston metro area and points south.[citation needed]
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Notable people
Keith Adams, former NFL linebacker[citation needed]
Frank G. Allen, Governor of Massachusetts, 1929–1931[citation needed]
Dicky Barrett, lead singer of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones[29][unreliable source?]
Harry Bigelow, lawyer[citation needed]
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Joseph Gould, "Professor Seagull" and the author of the unpublished "Oral History of our Time" [35] which led to
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Joseph Ferdinand Gould (12 September 1889 – 18 August 1957)[1] was an American eccentric, also known as Professor Seagull. Often homeless, he claimed to be the author of the longest book ever written, An Oral History of the Contemporary World, also known as An Oral History of Our Time or Meo Tempore.
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Gould collapsed on the street in 1952, eventually ending up in Pilgrim State Hospital on Long Island, where he died in 1957, aged 68. Time ran an obituary for him: "Gould had no known relatives but many friends, including poet E. E. Cummings, artist Don Freeman, Writers Malcolm Cowley and William Saroyan." None attended his funeral.
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wow way to be, wikipedia
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Anyway this is one of the places Sergio lived as a child and I'm 90% sure it doesn't exist because [citation needed]
chris 🧸
Ernie Boch is also famous for doing some kind of white collar crime, I think
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I'm pretty sure his daughter or daughter in law was my daycare teacher
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[citation needed, but actually true]
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and it does exist I go by there all the time, it's right next to where I work
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are you real tho
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...[citation needed]
Megan
man I didn't think places outside illinois had apocryphal "abraham lincoln totally visited here definitely" stories
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(every town in illinois is required to have one by state law)
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[citation needed]
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