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White Hall, Albemarle County, Virginia

Coordinates: 38°07′04″N 78°39′41″W / 38.11778°N 78.66139°W / 38.11778; -78.66139
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White Hall
White Hall is located in Virginia
White Hall
White Hall
Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia
White Hall is located in the United States
White Hall
White Hall
White Hall (the United States)
Coordinates: 38°07′04″N 78°39′41″W / 38.11778°N 78.66139°W / 38.11778; -78.66139
CountryUnited States
StateVirginia
CountyAlbemarle
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID1477940[1]

White Hall is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.[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

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  1. ^ a b "White Hall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Hanson, Raus McDill. Virginia Place Names: Derivations : Historical Uses. 1969. Pages 25-28.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1849.
  5. ^ Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Page 208.
  6. ^ Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia. 1849. Page 92.
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