Woodland College for Boys was established in 1863 and enrolled more than 300 students. Colonel L.R. Wortham donated ten acres of land for use as a campus, church, and cemetery. Its charter trustees were Col. L.R. Wortham, Thomas Lamb, Dr. Rueben Anderson, Oliver Carter, John I. Winn, D.L. Carter, Noland Womack, T.L. Sessions, and G.A. Sessions. Prof. Hellery Moseley was its only president, and Mattie, Mary, and Thomas Dixon were its teachers. The college became a grade school at the close of the Civil War, was discontinued in 1905, and moved to Kirvin.