NORWALK. A city and the county-seat of
Huron County, Ohio, 55 miles west by south
of Cleveland; on the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern and the Wheeling and Lake Erie
railroads (Map: ../Ohio/, E 3). It is a city of fine
residences, particularly on the main street, and
has a handsome court house and jail. Norwalk
is well situated for a commercial centre in an
agricultural and stock-raising country; its
extensive industrial interests are represented by
piano works, iron and steel works, railroad shops, pickling works, manufactories of interior decorations, curtain poles, novelties, umbrellas, tobacco, etc., and by a printing and publishing house. The government is vested in a mayor, elected every two years, and a unicameral council. The water-works, with reservoirs having a capacity of 500,000,000 gallons and covering an area of about forty acres, are owned and operated by the municipality. Settled in 1817, Norwalk was incorporated first in 1828. and in 1881 received a city charter. Huron County is the westernmost of the ten counties in northern Ohio composing the ‘Connecticut Reserve,’ or ‘Western Reserve,’ part of which was granted to Revolutionary sufferers. Population, in 1890, 7195; in 1900, 7074.