Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in White Hall, AL

White Hall is a town in Lowndes County in central Alabama, located along U.S. Route 80 west of Montgomery and within the Montgomery metropolitan area.

The community was named for the White Hall plantation, which was destroyed by a tornado in 1882.

White Hall was established in 1935 during the Great Depression as a New Deal resettlement project, when the federal Resettlement Administration bought the former plantation land and divided and sold plots to Black families through low-interest loans.

Because so many of its residents were African American landowners, White Hall became a center of civil rights activity, including drives to register Black voters in Lowndes County.

Although founded in 1935, White Hall did not incorporate as a town until 1979, and it is governed by a mayor and town council.

The 2020 census counted 806 residents in White Hall, down from the town's peak of 1,014 residents in the 2000 census.

White Hall is a notably spacious small town, covering about 15.5 square miles of Black Belt farmland, and about 94 percent of its residents identified as Black or African American in the 2020 census.

The Lowndes Interpretive Center, the National Park Service visitor center for the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, stands in White Hall along the highway followed by the 1965 voting rights marchers.

White Hall is the hometown of Ben Wallace, the undrafted center who became a four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.