I don't know much about the towns history in particular, except it was named in honor of a banker in Liberal, Kansas, by the name of C. E. Woods. It was the last town along the failed Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad, that ran from Woods to Liberal, Kansas. With Woods as with other small towns in this part of the country, its' development had a great deal to do with the storage and transportation of grain, as well as serving some of the other needs of farmers nearby. Submitted by: Tony Whisenant

You have this listed on your website already and it mentions that you don’t know much about the town.  I can give you a little more information about the store that is in the photo you have, it belonged to my Great Great Grandparents William Henry and Martha Caroline Cohenour.  The store actually consists of the two room house that was on their farm which they sold in 1915 and then they moved the house to the present location which land was owned by a relative Clyde Cohenour.  William Henry built a room onto the back and the front room was the store, the middle was where they stored things and the back was where they lived.  William Henry was sick and eventually died and he wanted to have a way for Martha Caroline to make a living and that is why they had the store. My Grandmother Myrtle Perkins lived with them worked in the store when she was 14 years old which was in 1919. I do not know when or if the store was sold as my Grandmother passed on some years ago.

Marilyn Tomalavage