Editing Rural Hall, North Carolina (section)

== History ==
The earliest settler was Anthony Bitting (1738-1804), who was born in Pennsylvania to a German American family.  In the 1770s he moved from [[Bucks County]] to Maryland, then to southern Virginia.  He supplied material to the Continental Army and may have participated in the battle of Guilford Court House.  His descendants still live in the county. His grandson, Benjamin Lewis Bitting (1832-1922), built the house that gave Rural Hall its name.

Another early settler was Johann Adam Geiger (Kiger) who donated {{convert|102|acre|km2}} to the Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church, which still serves the community today. The town developed after the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad erected a [[train station|station]] in 1887.<ref>Powell, William S. ''The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places'', Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968.</ref>

Rural Hall now is the operational center of the [[Yadkin Valley Railroad]], and many of the Yadkin Valley locomotives can be found idling there when not working.

The [[Rural Hall Depot]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
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== Churches ==
* Antioch United Methodist
* Bethel Methodist
* Faith United Methodist
* First Baptist Church of Rural Hall
* Freedom Baptist
* Grace Baptist
* Jefferson Church of Christ
* Kingswood United Methodist
* Mizpah Moravian
* Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran
* Northridge Baptist
* Rural Hall Church of Christ
* Rural Hall Church of God
* Rural Hall Moravian
* St. James United Methodist
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