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Greensfork Township’s District 6 school was first known as District 7. In 1865, it sat on the land of Archibald Armstrong at the southwest corner of what’s now East County Road 600-South and Boundary Pike¹. 

By 1874, the schoolhouse was surrounded by land owned by the Longfellow family², as it was in 1882³. Over time, the school obtained the common name of White Hall, probably due to the whitewash applied to its bricks⁴ that the building featured until recently⁵. 

At some point around 1880⁶, the old schoolhouse was moved across Boundary Pike and was converted to a home. The extant schoolhouse closed in 1906 when its students were sent to attend classes at Spartanburg⁷.

I know of another White Hall schoolhouse in East-Central Indiana; it’s in Madison County. Today, Randolph County’s old White Hall schoolhouse is still a dwelling. 

Sources Cited
1 Warner, C.S (1865). 1865 Wall-Map of Randolph County. C.A.O. McClellan & C.S. Warner. Waterloo, Indiana. map.
2 Griffing, B. N. (1874). Ward Township. An atlas of Randolph County, Indiana . map, Philadelphia, PA; Griffing, Gordon, & Company.
3 Tucker, E. (1882). History of Randolph County, Indiana. book. Chicago, IL; A.L. Kingman.
4 Black, L. (2002). Early Schools Of Greensfork Twp. Randolph Co. Indiana. Historic Preservation Randolph Southern Junior High Junior Historians. 
5 Randolph County Office of Information & GIS Services. (2022). Parcel ID: 68-12-32-300-006.000-005. Randolph County, Indiana Assessor. map, Winchester, IN.
6 (See footnote 5).
7 Hinshaw, G. (2008). A History of Education in Randolph County, Indiana. Retrieved February 13, 2022.