Such borders mark the area traditionally served by the fire station previously located at the current site of the Norwood Boys & Girls Club.
Norwood was established in 1874, when landscape architects and surveyors Niles B. Schubarth & Co. of Providence were hired by Nathan D. Pierce to lay out its streets.
Development began to pick up in the 1890s, when the Gorham Manufacturing Co. moved their operations to nearby Cranston.
Post Road is the main thoroughfare through Norwood, and is commercially developed, as are parts of Elmwood Avenue.
Both Elmwood and Post (as Broad Street) meet about 4.4 miles north of Norwood and continue on to downtown Providence.