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Norwich is a small city in Chenango County in New York's Southern Tier, completely surrounded by the Town of Norwich, and it serves as the county seat of Chenango County.

The first settlers arrived around 1788, when Colonel William Monroe - who had served as a drummer boy during the Revolutionary War - built the first log cabin; the Town of Norwich was formed on January 19, 1793, from the towns of Union and Bainbridge.

Norwich incorporated as a village in 1816 and became a city in 1914 - the New York State Senate formally commemorated the city's 100th anniversary in March 2014.

The Chenango Canal opened through Norwich in 1837, tying the Chenango valley to wider markets, and the city later became a regional rail center until the mid-20th century.

Norwich was the home of the Norwich Pharmacal Company, founded in 1887, which introduced the antiseptic Unguentine in 1893 and the liquid antacid that became Pepto-Bismol in 1901; the company was acquired by Morton International in 1969 and sold to Procter & Gamble in 1982.

In its manufacturing heyday Norwich was also home to the largest hammer manufacturer in the United States.

Norwich hosts the headquarters of both NBT Bancorp, parent of NBT Bank, and Chobani, the Greek-yogurt company founded by Hamdi Ulukaya, who restarted a former Kraft Foods plant near the city in 2005.

The Northeast Classic Car Museum, which opened in Norwich over Memorial Day weekend 1997, displays more than 170 vehicles from 1899 through the early 1980s across five connected buildings - including the world's largest collection of Franklin automobiles.

Norwich's Chenango County Courthouse District, a historic district of 45 contributing buildings centered on the 1837 county courthouse, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Norwich had 7,051 residents at the 2020 census, down from 7,190 in 2010.