Calhoun County Commissioner Carolyn Henderson said the county’s purchase of a 16-acre park near Wellborn High School fulfills a dream belonging to her late husband, Eli Henderson.
One outstanding area of business activity has been the Wildwood Shopping Center, now known simply as the Wildwood Building, located at the southern edge of Olympia on Capitol Boulevard. Built at the end of the Great Depression, the Wildwood Building marked the explosive growth of the city to the south as suburbia expanded.