Seven Springs

… town in SE Wayne County on Neuse River. Inc. 1855 as Whitehall; reincorporated as White Hall, 1881; named for the plantation home of William Whitefield, who built there about 1741. Post office est. 1881 as Jericho; name changed to Seven Springs, 1894. Named for seven mineral springs, around which a resort operated from 1881 until 1944. The hotel and springhouse still stand. The Confederate ironclad Neuse was built there. A Civil War skirmish occurred there in December 1862. Alt. 75.