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History · White Hall

White Hall’s post office opened in 1826, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Campsite 2: Rosie Steele Property. Most of White Hall was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Below: maps from 1957 on and the census since 1970.

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How White Hall began

When was White Hall founded?

1826

The White Hall post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 367 in 19702020 census: 806200 years

Founding year: the first White Hall post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about White Hall’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of White Hall are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost a third of its people between 1970 and 1980, then grew 3-fold.Deep rootsA post office since 1826: 200 years of White Hall.

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Start White Hall’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how White Hall’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos

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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.

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People over time

White Hall, census by census

Lost a third of its people between 1970 and 1980, then grew 3-fold.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on White Hall’s Wikipedia page.

Timeline

White Hall, 1826 to 2000

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

19th century
1826Post officeThe White Hall post office opens
20th century
1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
1967Post officeThe White Hall post office closes
1974Born hereBen Wallace is born here
21st century
2000CensusPopulation peaks at 1,014

The story so far

White Hall, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of White Hall yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

White Hall is a town in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, White Hall had a population of 806. The community was named for a plantation that was destroyed in an 1882 tornado. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was established during the Great Depression in 1935 as a New Deal project under the Resettlement Administration, similar to the town of Skyline. Because of Southern racial segregation, White Hall was intended for the African-American majority population in the area. The town did not incorporate until 1979.

Its first post office opened in 1826. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 858 to 806 (-6%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

White Hall, decade by decade

Today2 recent

2012White Hall, Alabama

2012Holy Ground Battlefield Park

On the map

White Hall on the map, 1957 to 1982

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of White Hall. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

1957Autaugaville sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of White Hall.

On the National Register

1 historic place in White Hall

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed

National Historic Landmarks

none yet

historic buildings protected

each building in a district counts

first listed

2023

Campsite 2: Rosie Steele Property

Sites

All 1 listings

Campsite 2: Rosie Steele PropertySite · listed 2023

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

White Hall had its own post office from 1826 to 1967.

White Hall

1826–1967

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Hamlets and corners on the map

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Gone or out of use

Roland Industrial Schoolschool

2cemeteries and burying grounds inside White Hall

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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about White Hall’s history

What year was White Hall founded?

The White Hall post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in White Hall?

One place: the Campsite 2: Rosie Steele Property (listed 2023).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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