North Woodstock Village Corners grew at the intersection of two turnpikes and was long known as Village Corners. The Norwich and Woodstock Turnpike began in 1801 to carry traffic northward to the Massachusetts line, and about 1827 Center Turnpike opened, with mail stages stopping here on the route between Tolland and Dudley and Needham, Massachusetts. A district school was built nearby in 1798, and a church was built in 1831; the present church building was dedicated in 1895. The Grange and other groups met at Community Hall. Before 1800, clockmaker and silversmith Peregrine White had a shop on the road to East Woodstock. From 1815 to 1845, Woodstock Manufacturing Company made cloth and carpets at Pond Factory in English Neighborhood. Between 1830 and the Civil War, many businesses operated near Village Corners, including a hotel, at least two shoe manufacturers, several harness and carriage making firms, a shingle mill, manufacturers of thread and cotton goods, taverns, dry goods and grocery stores, and the offices or shops of a carpenter, a blacksmith, a post office, a doctor, a dentist, and a probate judge.