Simple and Twin Bedded Room

On 27 April , Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the Maharaja of Mysore State, granted 3,900 acres 16 km2 of land to the Eurasian and AngloIndian Association, Mysore and Coorg EAI for the establishment of agricultural settlements at Whitefield, which lay within his territory. The association was then about 170 strong with a committee of 30 members. They were part of the formation of the only settlement in India that European and Eurasians could call their own. David Emmanuel Starkenburgh White, the then president of the EAI Association, South India Ltd., took a lively interest in it and helped in its advancement which at the beginning was an uphill task.

In the first decade of the s there were about 45 houses 18 were on the village site and the remainder were on farms throughout the settlement and contained about 2,000 acres 8.1 km2 of land fit for cultivation. The number of residents in was 130. Lord Connemara, the then governor of Madras and General Sir Harry Prendergast, a British resident in Mysore, visited the settlement and lent support to the development of Whitefield. Subsequently, there were regular visits to Whitefield by the Bangalore District officials and high dignitaries from the Madras Presidency.

The settlement was 3 kilometres 1.9 mi south of the BangaloreMadras now Chennai line and a station was built. It led to the influx of residents and their families who worked at Kolar Gold Fields, about 50 kilometres 31 mi by train to the east. It became convenient for those working at KGF to catch a train running 3 to 4 times a day and return to their families. There were frequent trains running to Bangalore 20 kilometres 12 mi to the west by train. Reaching the settlement from the railway station was possible only by writing a letter to Mrs. Hamilton wife of a James Hamilton, the keeper of the Waverly Inn who would arrange for a bullock cart trip for 8 annas.