From the Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1876-77, by R. L. Polk & Co.

WOODLAND MILLS.

A hamlet of 120 inhabitants, in the northern part of Obion County, 1 mile from the Kentucky line, 14 from Troy, the county seat, and 163 west of Nashville. It is a station on the NC&StL Railway, and has a steam grist and saw mill, 3 stores, a drug store, Baptist Church and public school. Exports wheat, corn, hay and tobacco. Express Southern. Mail daily. C. M. Sanders, postmaster.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BRANHAM, W. G. – general store.
CHANDLER, __  – physician.
CONNOR, G. W. – grist and saw mill.
DAVIS & ISBELL – leaf tobacco.
GARDNER, W. H. – station agent.
LOWNSBOROUGH, T. H. C. – boot and shoemaker.
ODOM, J. R. – groceries and liquors.
PRATHER, John W. – physician.
SANDERS, C. M. – express agent.
SANDERS, J. H. – confectioner.
SANDERS, C. M. & Co. – general store.
WILLIAMS, E. L. – physician.