 The community of White House stretched along the Jersey Turnpike (now Route 22 and Old Route 28), which was the main street.The settlement included taverns, stores, grist mills, an academy, a Dutch Reformed Church and numerous houses.Nearby Whitehouse Station, which also indirectly took the name from the tavern, was not built up until 1848 when an extension of the Somerville and Easton Railroad was built.