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Sherwood is located on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad in the romantic valley of Crow Creek and is 1100 feet
above sea level.
Ex.-Lieut. Gov. C. D. Sherwood of Wisconsin, after whom the place is named, located there in 1875 and purchased a large tract of land and organized
the Sherwood Colony of which he is the president, his object being to build up a health resort and manufacturing town. The town has been platted into
lots of the most convenient size to suit purchasers including a large number of tracts suitable for fruit farms on the top of the mountain to which a
wagon road of easy grade has been made. This road leads from Sherwood to the University of the South at Sewanee only a few miles distant.
The colony consists at present of thirty Northern and ten Southern families. And the town which is only nine years old, has two general stores, a steam
saw planing and shingle-mill combined, two churches, the Sherwood Academy and one free school, the railroad depot and offices, a large number of
dwellings, and some mechanical shops. There are fine mineral springs at the top of the mountain and A. J. Smith of Wisconsin has purchased a tract of
land and made arrangements to build a hotel costing $20,000. To this hotel he intends to conduct the mineral waters through pipes. There are also fine
springs of pure water at the site of the hotel. A son of Mr. Smith will commence the publication of a newspaper there in September next. The contract
is let and the office for the press is now being constructed.
Mr. Hersheimer of Wisconsin has made arrangements to move his machinery to Sherwood and establish a large foundry which will employ sixty hands. It is
a most romantic place and as soon as the improvements now under way are completed it will no doubt become a popular health resort. The leading industry
at present is the getting out of chestnut-oak tan-bark and shipping it to St. Louis and Louisville. About ninety car loads of this bark are shipped
annually.
Source: History of Tennessee, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886
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