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Crossroads | Story and Photos Courtesy of Jeff Reid, Contributing Writer
WHITE HOUSE, VA
White House, Virginia
W
hite House corner has been long
known as the intersection of
Routes 626 and 608 to residents
A sign at the corner of White
House Road and Smith
Mountain Lake Parkway
welcomes travelers to the
White House community.
The community was originally
called Otterview but was
later named White House
after George Goob Saunders
asked John Callaway Franklin
to build him a white house
on the knoll in 1859.
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on the south side of Bedford County. So
how did it get its name? Was it named after
the famous building in Washington, D.C.,
or something else?
Jason Johnson, who serves on the
Bedford County School Board, and is
writing a book about White House, says it
was simply named after a white house that
once stood on a knoll between what is now
Smith Mountain Lake Parkway and White
House Road.
" The house was painted with real white
paint instead of white wash, so it really
stood out, " Johnson says. " It became a
landmark for travelers. " Johnson and his
parents now live on the property.
According to Johnson, the White House
was built for $1,500 in 1859 by John
Calloway Franklin for George Goob
Saunders. Franklin also built two other
residences in the area that were very similar
in style. One was for Elijah Cundiff at
Fancy Grove, a few miles east of White
House, and the other was built for Beebe
Johnson on Route 122, just north of Davis
Mill and Goose Creek.
A crossroads community named after a white house that once stood
on a knoll between what is now Smith Mountain Lake Parkway and
White House Road.
Papers by Kenneth Crouch on file at the
Bedford Museum and Genealogical Society
show that George Goob Saunders was born
in 1822, the son of Daniel Green and
Frances Elizabeth Saunders. They lived at
Ivy Cliff near the Isle of Pines, and the
home is now under the waters of Smith
Mountain Lake. He donated the land to
Moody Meeting House. The site, now in
Smith Mountain Lake State Park, was the
beginning of Staunton Baptist Church.
White House operated as a plantation
with slave labor up until the Civil War.
Johnson says, in 1860 as many as eight
slaves worked the 320-acre farm, planting
corn, wheat and tobacco.
On June 15, 1864, an advance guard
under Union Gen. William W. Averell's
command came to White House on the
way to Liberty (now the town of Bedford)
and may have emancipated the slaves.
After the war, the area became known
as Otterview. The county of Bedford
designated it as White House in 1988.
Saunders and his wife, Martha Jane
Cunning, and their children stayed at
the house until the 20th century.
In 1925, the house was destroyed by
fire, rumored but never proven to be arson,
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