Page "Millwood, Washington" Paragraph 2

According to the Tacoma Public Library's Washington Place Names database: " In 1900, it was chosen as a station by the Spokane-Coeur d ' Alene Electric Railway, and was named Woodard's for the family who owned the land along the railway route.

When Inland Empire Paper Company built a paper mill they requested a name change to Milltown.

Railway officials refused the change unless the Woodard family agreed.

A compromise resulted, using the word mill combined with the first four letters of Woodard.

It was incorporated October 27, 1927.