 After industrial restructuring in the late 1970s and when the iron company moved out, the town has declined in population since its peak in 1980.Brighton Cemetery, which is still operating, contains the graves of persons of Scottish, English and German descent who came to work at Woodward.In August 1908, coal miner and union leader William Miller, who was black, was accused of blowing up the home of a white mine operator Finley Fuller.