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A view from 1939:

WHITEHALL, (4,371 alt., 553 pop.), is a long, narrow, quiet town, the trading center for the southern part of Jefferson County, one of the original Territorial counties. It is apparently merely a line of stores and houses strung out along US 10 S but actually, most of it sits back among shade trees and shrubbery. Before 1863 fur traders were the only white inhabitants in this region. About that time Thomas Brooks built a stage station 4 miles north of this place on the route between Virginia City and Fort Benton, naming it Old Whitehall for his former home in England. The number of settlers in the region increased slowly but Whitehall did not have much importance until 1889 when the Northern Pacific branch between Logan and Garrison was built.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.