Timeline
1961
Morgan’s Hardware and Keenum’s Rexall Drug store open in Woodstock. Woodstock Lions Club is chartered.
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
SCRA, South Cherokee Recreation Association, is organized by volunteers, independent of county or city government.
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.
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.