Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Whitehall, MI

Whitehall is a city in Muskegon County, Michigan, sitting on White Lake — actually the mouth of the White River — about five miles inland from Lake Michigan.

Whitehall was platted around 1859 by lumber baron Charles Mears together with Giles B. Slocum and originally named 'Mears'; it was renamed Whitehall in 1862, incorporated as a village in 1867, and became a city in 1943.

Whitehall grew as a strategic point for floating and distributing lumber during Michigan's lumber era, using its position on White Lake.

Whitehall faces its twin city, Montague, across White Lake, and the roughly 24-mile-long White River flows through the lake before reaching Lake Michigan through a dredged channel.

In 1675 the explorer Jacques Marquette stopped in the Whitehall area and recorded the Native name Wabish-Sippe — 'the river with white clay in the water' — the origin of the White River and White Lake names.

Whitehall had 2,909 residents in the 2020 census and 1,276 households, with an older profile: a median age of 46.0 and more than a quarter of residents aged 65 or older.

Whitehall is home to the Playhouse at White Lake, a 400-seat theater built in 1916 that was saved from demolition in 1973 and now operates as a city-run summer theater.

The White River Lighthouse near Whitehall was built in 1875, guided shipping until its deactivation in 1960, and today operates as a museum of the area's shipping and logging history.

Whitehall contains three Frank Lloyd Wright cottages and a Wright-designed house, all built between 1897 and 1905.

The 22-mile Hart-Montague Trail, considered Michigan's first linear state park, runs through Whitehall on its way between Montague and Hart.