With the general store, post office and train, the town began to grow from 30 citizens in the first decade of the 1900s to over a hundred by 1925.

A main reason was the mill to produce excelsior, a product made from soft pines to pack furniture and fragile items for shipping, to stuff cushions for automobiles, and to reinforce gypsum wall boards.

[3] The community was named for William Woodford, an American Revolutionary War general.

[4] It was a stop on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, which was replaced by CSXT.

Edge Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.