In 1872, a line was installed down to West Blocton to ship the large abundance of coal found in the area. Woodstock became a break and storage yard for coal, red and brown iron ore and cotton. After the Civil War, rich iron ore deposits were mined. In 1872, Mr. Giles Edwards moved to Woodstock from Tannehill and built a blast furnace to manufacture pig iron. Mr. Edwards was later joined in the business by his son-in-law, James W. McQueen, who went on to become the president of Sloss-Sheffield Iron Company in Birmingham. In addition to iron ore mining, coal mining, and farming, a jug factory was built to take advantage of the large deposits of fire clay that were in the area. The clay was used to make bricks, jugs, pots, and churns. As many as eight trains per day stopped in Woodstock, carrying away its riches, six of them carrying mail. Woodstock was also the roots of a newspaper business in the 1800’s. This publication moved to Six Mile and then to Birmingham where it became the Birmingham News. The town of Woodstock was formally incorporated in 1996 as North Bibb with Carl Jones as Mayor.  Woodstock formally changed its name back to The Town of Woodstock by Ordinance 2000-08-03, effective October 1, 2000, S. B. Albert Hutchens, Mayor.