Area History
In early 1800’s, settlers came to this area for work and to make a homestead. Life was difficult then with no main roads and settlers had to grow root vegetables and cultivate livestock to get through the long winters. There was a booming lumber trade and the rivers supplied the energy to bring the logs to the mills. The land was rich in lumber and the soil was fertile, remnants of the Ice age. The ice age also pushed down the granite close to Norland and left the limestone that was further south in Coboconk. This is why Norland is called THE LAND BETWEEN. The town of Coboconk derives its name from the Native Americans that inhabited this area earlier. The Native Americans called it Kioshquabeconk (where the gulls nest).
