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History · White Hall Township

White Hall Township’s post office opened in 1827, and 35% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Tillery, Virginia, Round Barn. Below: maps from 1924 on and the census since 1870.

1827first post office
3on the National Register
35%homes built before 1940
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How White Hall Township began

When was White Hall Township founded?

1827

The White Hall Township post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, New Providence (1860) and Highstreet (1898), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 1,200 in 18702020 census: 2,552199 years
Founding year: the first White Hall Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about White Hall Township’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 Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 3,082 in 1950; 2,295 people lived here in 2020.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s White Hall Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of White Hall Township’s homes were built before 1950.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how White Hall Township’s history is told.

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People over time

White Hall Township, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,00018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 3,082

Peaked at 3,082 in 1950; 2,295 people lived here in 2020.

15 censuses, 1870–2020.

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

Places that used to be

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

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

New Providence
1860–1869
Highstreet
1898–1902
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Belltown
Gone or out of use
Belltown SchoolschoolBirch SchoolschoolGolden Arrow SchoolschoolGregory SchoolschoolHigh Street ChurchchurchMaple Grove SchoolschoolNew Shiloh SchoolschoolOakland ChurchchurchProspect SchoolschoolShiloh Churchchurch
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside White Hall Township
HendersonHicksHigh StreetJonesNorthSandersWhite Hall

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

The story

How White Hall Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of White Hall Township.

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A post office called White Hall has been in operation since 1827. In 1830 a David Barrow was the first person to build and in a location that would become White Hall. Two years later he bought another 80 acres of land at the price of $200 for the purpose of creating the town. Four years later, in 1836 White Hall was official established. This area was the home to a long, white tavern owned by James Allen, which was the only hotel between Carrollton, Illinois and Jacksonville, Illinois. The town got its name from the fact that when a stage was approaching the tavern, the driver would call out "Next stop, the White Hall."

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

White Hall Township, 1860 to 1950

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Post officeThe New Providence post office opens
  3. 1869Post officeThe New Providence post office closes
  4. 1898Post officeThe Highstreet post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1902Post officeThe Highstreet post office closes
  7. 1924On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1950CensusPopulation peaks at 3,082
By decade

White Hall Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Image The Foundry2015Image The FoundryImage 117 Main Street2015Image 117 Main Street2010 Census Urban Cluster Reference Map for20102010 Census Urban Cluster Reference Map forBook
On the map

White Hall Township on the map, 1924 to 1983

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

White Hall Township on the 1924 USGS mapWhite Hall Township on the 1983 USGS map1924Roodhouse 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 Township.

On the National Register

3 listings protect 32 historic buildings

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

places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
32
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Tillery, Virginia, Round Barn
Tillery, Virginia, Round Barn
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Round Barn1
Tillery, Virginia, Round BarnRound Barn

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Carrollton Township4 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWrights TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoodhouse Township1 historic placeA−Walkerville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about White Hall Township’s history

What year was White Hall Township founded?

The White Hall Township post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in White Hall Township?

3 listings: 1 building, among them the Tillery, Virginia, Round Barn (listed 1982, the first). 32 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

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

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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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.