Sherwood Forest

Brothers John C. and William C. Sherwood purchased 1,600 acres of land extending southwest from the present Hattie Sherwood Park out to Irving Park Road in the mid-1800s.

John built a hotel and cottages called Sherwood Forest on the west end of that land in the 1870s. It is now the Robinhood Estates housing development, at the end of Forest Avenue.

Sherwood Forest Hotel burned in 1913. It was rebuilt and continued to welcome guests until 1930, when it was converted to a summer camp for girls, known as Camp Robinhood. This building burned down in 1940. Then a lodge for the summer camp was built.

In the 1970s the land was converted to a residential development.

John’s brother, William, farmed the north end of the land. His descendants converted the farm to Maplewood Hotel and ran it for decades. They donated the land that is now Hattie Sherwood Park.