Golf Courses

Belvedere Golf Course

Local History

Mill owner Charles Mears and businessman Giles B. Slocum, platted the village and named it Mears in 1859.  Albert (brother of Charles) Mears became its first postmaster on June 23, 1862.  It was renamed Whitehall, from its being by White Lake, on April 1, 1867.  Incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1942.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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