- Tavern
- Early
- c. 1830 or 1835 (sources differ)
- City of Atlanta
- Location approximate
White Hall tavern (c. 1830-35)
Charner Humphries's inn at the crossing of the Newnan and Sandtown roads, named White Hall for its white paint, gave the West End its first name. It served as tavern, stagecoach stop, post office, militia district seat and polling place.
The record
Wikipedia's West End article dates the inn to 'around 1830' in one passage and the settlement to 1835 in another, and the city's West End-White Hall Historic Walk uses 1835; the date is uncertain. The building stood at today's Lee Street and Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard. It housed the 503rd militia district and an election precinct, and was called White Hall because it had a coat of white paint when most other buildings were of 'washed or natural wood.' The Newnan road linked Newnan with Decatur and Lawrenceville, and the Sandtown road crossed it heading west. The GHS Utoy post office marker lists White Hall as a stop on the Decatur-Marthasville-White Hall-Sandtown stage route, and Federal troops camped near 'White Hall (West End)' in November 1864 (GHS).
Today: The West End's commercial crossroads; the tavern is long gone.