Wilton, once a prominent railroad town in the southwest corner of Shelby County, was founded by L. McMillen, L.W. Irwin, O. H. Bice, John Westley Little, Sam Vest, L. Cochran, and O. L. Hitchcook. Its first town hall burned, destroying many early records, and later council members reenacted some of the first ordinances to replace those lost in the fire. In 1934 the Civil Works Administration built the current town hall. Wilton had three churches: the Methodist Church on Church Street, Bible Baptist on Shoal Creek, and the Baptist Church on Highway 25. The town also had several businesses, including general stores, barbecue restaurants, Wilton Garage, and two hotels that stayed busy with train passengers. Its post office was established on May 26th, 1892, serving as both a mail service and an informal communication center. Wilton had two schools, the first located in the Methodist Church and the second in a separate building on an isolated hill behind the residence of T. C. Poole until it burned in the summer of 1939; no school was rebuilt after that fire. Favorite pastimes included marble-shooting, fellowshipping at local singings, and meeting passengers at the train depot, where children and grown-ups dressed up to meet the 4 o’clock train. Known earlier as Woods, then Birmingham Junction and Bismark, Wilton eventually exchanged its passenger trains and busy street life for a quieter place off Highway 25.