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Saturday, September 10, 2011

White Hall: built in 1919 and used as a clinic. It was the first hospital in Sampson County. In the summer of 1935 the building was renovated by Pineland College and named White Hall (housing and schooling girls grades 5th – 8th) In 1967 it was renamed The Fraternity House. It was next to the last of the schools early buildings to be destroyed in 1986.




On February 23, 1986 the Sampson Independent ran a picture and story of the razing of White Hall. Salemburg mayor Bobby Strickland is pictured standing on the porch of White Hall.

When the final day arrived Crotia and Jack Blanchard sat across the street and watch as the building being torn down. Crotia wrote the sweetest and the sadness account of the memories that returned to her as they viewed its destruction. In Sandspurs on page 278, this story is recounted. Unfortunately she did not date this account. 

According to Mayor Strickland this building could not be salvaged as the roof had deteriorated over time and the building was just too damaged to be repaired.  Jr. Barracks was referred to as ‘The Alamo’ so one is led to surmise that it was actually the last of the large dorm buildings (July 1987) to have been razed. The five large dormitory buildings still standing in 1974 before the entrance of the Justice Academy were: Pineland, EMI, White Hall, Jr. Barracks, and Little Women. However, before the closing of Southwood College, the Little Women building  had been remodeled and moved across the Autryville Rd. where it stands today. Pineland and EMI were burned early on. 

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