1956
1956

Dial phones are introduced in Woodstock.

1960
1961
1961

Morgan’s Hardware and Keenum’s Rexall Drug store open in Woodstock.  Woodstock Lions Club is chartered.

1962
1962

Highway 92 is improved, widened, and paved.  Woodstock’s first subdivision, Cherokee Forest, is developed. The last cotton warehouse adjacent to the rail line is demolished.  Woodstock Medical Clinic opens. Woodstock becomes a part of the Metropolitan Atlanta telephone exchange, a boost for businesses and individuals alike.

1963
1963

SCRA, South Cherokee Recreation Association, is organized by volunteers, independent of county or city government.

1964
1964

Woodstock Public Library opens in a store front, the first branch of the main county library in Canton. The first full-time Woodstock City Clerk is hired.

1966
1966

Woodstock’s first zoning ordinance is enacted.

1967
1967

Georgia Ann Price Reed becomes Woodstock School’s first African-American teacher.

1969
1969

Cherokee Atomedic Hospital opens on July 20th , the same day that Americans landed on the moon. It was located on Arnold Mill Road on property occupied today by Northside Hospital Cherokee Amphitheater. Woodstock had a hospital before it had a traffic light.

1970