White Hall, Frederick County, Virginia
| White Hall | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
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| Coordinates: 39°17′28″N 78°8′53″W / 39.29111°N 78.14806°WCoordinates: 39°17′28″N 78°8′53″W / 39.29111°N 78.14806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Frederick |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1477872 |
White Hall is an unincorporated farming community in northern Frederick County, Virginia, established in the late 1810s and located near the crossroads of Apple Pie Ridge Road (VA 739) with Green Spring and White Hall (VA 671) Roads, astride Apple Pie Ridge (922 feet/281 meters).
Apple Pie Ridge Road runs 8.8 miles along the key local terrain feature, which is the Apple Pie Ridge located between the city of Winchester and the West Virginia border, starting at U.S. 522 beside James Wood High School. The road passes the Upper Ridge Quaker Cemetery, then continues past Hiatt's Hill and Hiatt Road, where Edward Braddock led a march of British forces past this area on the way to capture Fort Duquesne near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The center of the White Hall community is marked by the White Hall Grocery store at the VA 739 and VA 671 intersection. Nearby is the White Hall United Methodist Church, the old White Hall School, the Crumley-Lynn-Lodge House (c. 1759) and the historical sites of an old blacksmith shop, cider mill, tavern and the Lower Quaker Meeting House. Bracketing the White Hall community are many of the prime apple orchard farms of Frederick County.
The history of this community goes back to 1751, when the road was simply known as Ridge Road by an order of the court. As Quaker families settled in this area, migrating southward "up" the Great Appalachian Valley, orchards, wheat farms and cattle farms sprang up around the area. The road supposedly became known as Apple Pie Ridge Road when Hessian soldiers, captured during the American Revolutionary War, were quartered on the Glaize farm west of Winchester, Virginia, and would walk north to the ridge to eat apple pies cooked by Quakers.
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