Woodland Baptist Church traced its roots to Brown's Creek Baptist Church, located at the present site of Woodland Cemetery and established by Rev. Obadiah Dodson, Samuel Brown, and other settlers. In 1835, when the congregation split over the issue of missions, some members formed Brown's Creek Missionary Baptist Church and built south on Brown's Creek. After the Civil War, that property was ceded to the former slave members, and another building was erected on the present site. In 1870, the church changed its name to Woodland Baptist Church. The present sanctuary was completed c. 1920 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Woodland Academy was established here in 1880 by Woodland Baptist Church. It closed c. 1890, and a new school was built at Hopewell, about two miles south, operating until 1899, when Woodland School reopened in a three-room building. About 1912, Rock Hill and Union were consolidated with Woodland, and the county's first system of free transportation was used here with horse-drawn covered wagons. Wellwood and Cliff Creek were later consolidated with Woodland. The school continued to expand until the 1950s, and in 1962 it closed when the children were sent to Brownsville and Holly Grove.