Editing Seven Springs, North Carolina (section)

== History ==
The town was incorporated as Whitehall in 1855, named in homage to the 1741 home of planter William Whitefield. In December 1862, during the [[American Civil War]], [[Battle of White Hall|a battle]] was fought near the town. In 1881 the community was reincorporated as White Hall. That year a [[Destination spa|hotel and resort]] opened to bring customers to seven [[mineral spring]]s in the town's vicinity. The resort closed in 1944. In 1951 the town was renamed Seven Springs.{{sfn|Powell|1976|p=446}} Seven Springs' population peaked in 1960 with 207 residents. In 1999 the [[Neuse River]] flooded during [[Hurricane Floyd]], causing the town's population to halve. [[Hurricane Matthew]] in 2016 and [[Hurricane Florence]] in 2018 led to further decline; by 2020, the town had only 55 residents, and many of the businesses on the principal street in the community were left abandoned.<ref name= flavelle>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/climate/climate-towns-bankruptcy.html|title=Climate Change Is Bankrupting America's Small Towns|first1=Christopher|last1=Flavelle|first2=Mike|last2=Belleme|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 2, 2021}}</ref>