Norwood is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Montgomery County,

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, United States, located at the intersection of Layhill Road ( MD 182), Norwood Road (also MD 182), and Ednor Road, two miles from the

Intercounty Connector Maryland Route 200 (MD 200), also known as the Intercounty Connector or ICC, is an controlled-access highway, controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of Maryland. It connects Gaithersburg, Maryland, Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, Ma ...

(ICC). Norwood was named Holland's Corner at one time from a store opened ''circa'' 1860 by James Holland.Sandy Spring Museum: Ednor/Norwood.
Retrieved 6 January 2012. In 1889, Holland became the first postmaster of the town, which was renamed Norwood around the same time. The Red Door Country Store, at the corner of Norwood Road and Ednor Road, was a general store owned by Marie E. Smith that had a scale on which farmers weighed their grain. The store also served as a post office after the closure of the post office in nearby

Ednor, Maryland Ednor is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West ...

. Norwood as a toponym is largely unused and this lack of use gained local prominence due to the use of "Norwood" as one of two "key destinations" listed on signs for the Layhill Road interchange on the ICC (Exit 10).Katherine Shaver
"Take the ICC and exit at Norwood — where?"
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''. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2012.

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Map of Norwood ca. 1890
Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Maryland Unincorporated communities in Maryland {{MontgomeryCountyMD-geo-stub