History in a
Pecan Shell
C. F. Hull, a settler and the town’s first storeowner
arrived in the early 1850s. A post office was opened at what had originally been
called Huff’s Store and the community underwent a change of name – becoming
Woods, Texas after the first postmaster, T. B. Wood. The post office closed in
1906. Woods had three churches, a school and three stores to serve a population
estimated at 200 by the mid 1880s.
The population fell by half by 1910
and during the worst of the Great Depression the population had declined to a
mere 30 residents.
The
Woods school merged with Carthage
in the 1940s, and by the mid 1960s the population had only risen to 40. It is
now considered a “dispersed” community with hardly anything visible from the highway.
The figure of 65 has been used for both the 1990 and the 2000 census. | 
