WOODS, TEXAS

Woods, Texas Area Hotels:
Carthage Hotels

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.