White Hall is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.[1]
White Hall | |
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  White Hall Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia  White Hall White Hall (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 38°07′04″N 78°39′41″W / 38.11778°N 78.66139°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Albemarle |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1477940[1] |
"Whitehall, in the northwestern portion of the county, was an election precinct known as Glenn's Store, William Maupin's Store, Maupin's Tavern, Miller's Store, Shumate's Tavern, until 1835. Then, it was named Whitehall for a White family living in the community. White Hall Pop. 55; elev. 722."[2]
Whitehall was an election district, and was also previously named Glenn's Store; William Maupin's Store; Maupin's Tavern; Miller's Tavern; Shumate's Tavern, until the present name was established in 1835.[3] The White family in the area was possibly that of Anderson White, whose plantation was four miles to the east, in Free Union, and who, with his wife Lucinda Huckstep, raised 12 children, some of whom lived at White Hall.
The Virginia house of Delegates passed Bill 111 on December 19, 1849, for a survey of a road from Shumate's Tavern to Covington, Virginia in Alleghany County, Virginia.[4] In January 1849 a grant in aid was proposed to intersect the turnpike from Vance's on the Huntersville and Warm Springs Turnpike to the Jackson's River Turnpike at John Shumate's Tavern, a distance of about 15 miles.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b "White Hall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ Hanson, Raus McDill. Virginia Place Names: Derivations : Historical Uses. 1969. Pages 25-28.
- ^ Woods, Edgar. Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of What It Was by Nature, of What It Was Made by Man, and of Some of the Men Who Made It. Charlottesville, Va: The Michie Company, Printers, 1901. Page 22.
- ^ Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1849.
- ^ Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Page 208.
- ^ Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia. 1849. Page 92.
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