[1] The town's land and surrounding rural area was first granted to Richard Dry in the 1830s then sold for farming to William Hingston in 1854.

Over time the town has had a blacksmith, post office, library, shops and petrol station; none of these remain in the 21st century.

Hingston's land ownership and actions assisted the establishment of Whitemore as a central village of the surrounding farming area.

[6] By the time Hingston built Whitemoor House the town had a modest country store, a blacksmith's shop and the Wesleyan chapel.

The town never became the population centre and Whitemoor remained a farming district with only a few buildings clustered near the church.

Route C508 (an extension of Whitemore Road) starts at an intersection with C507 and runs north-east until it exits, where it then forms part of the eastern boundary.

[20] By 1908 the post office was run from the chapel house in the main part of the town, and a shop ran from the same building.

[21] The electricity was fed from the Hydro-Electric scheme and was connected to twelve buildings, in Whitemore and several nearby farms, by August of the same year.

Hingston's home proved too cramped for religious meetings so in 1857 he donated land for a chapel, which was built in the same year by Joshua Higgs.

[5] Its foundation stone was laid on 30 November 1864; the year of the Australian Wesleyan Church's jubilee observance.

[22] On the main street, opposite the church, is a recreation ground and playground, both maintained by the Meander Valley Council.

An early record is of a match against Oaks in 1898,[30] though club minutes date only from 1927 at which time it was playing in the Westmoreland association.

[34] As of 2012 the Whitemore Tennis club fielded an amateur A grade team, and others in lower divisions[35] The first wooden church was used as the area's school from 1857.

[36] This dual use of the church as a school has been stated, by local historian Ivan Heazlewood, as likely to be planned from the beginning.

[37] Heazlewood speculated that the later 1865 church was probably used for classes due to the small size of the wooden school building.

[41] In the 21st century, Whitemore consists of a small cluster of buildings either side of the only road, surrounded by farming land.

[43] Whitemore, along with Hagley, has historically had one of the highest concentrations of stud farms breeding pedigree livestock, in Australia.

The Poll Dorset, an important breed in prime lamb production in Australia, was first bred at a Whitemore stud.

[44] Whitemore farmers, the French family, began breeding Ryeland lambs in early 21st century.

The family had originally farmed this breed in the 1930s, but it had now become uncommon in Australia due to changing fashions in meat.

The family was honoured by the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania in 2013 for their involvement in the Tasmanian sheep industry over the previous one hundred years.

[49] He designed and built agricultural machinery, including the first "stump jump" scarifier that was suitable for the northwest coast of Tasmania.

[51] Shaw moved to Whitemore in late 1935 and began work as an agricultural service provider,[52] from what had been a blacksmith's workshop.

This welder also put out sufficient radio-frequency interference to disrupt radio reception elsewhere the town; a matter that caused some complaint.

[53] They added vehicle sales and maintenance in the 1940s and expanded with the purchase of a one-acre lot opposite the original workshop in 1946.

[54] A significant part of the Shaw company's income from the late 1940s to the early 1950s was selling vehicle tires.

[56] In 1958 James Shaw and a partner purchased a 25-ton International Harvester TD24 tractor that was formerly owned by Tasmania's Hydro Electric Commission.

Shaw Mix were involved with the Launceston General Hospital and some cast concrete bridges but this line of work ceased during the 1990s.

[60] Other significant contracts have included: Building 11 kilometres (7 mi) of the Hume freeway from Seymour to Avenel Victoria in 1978;[61] A road upgrade near Samoa's capital Apia in 2004; Constructing, from 2009, a 15 kilometres (9 mi) bypass of the Town of Dilston on the road from Launceston to Georgetown.

[63] Alwyn Shaw—Son of James Shaw—and his wife Judy ran the business until 2013, when they sold it to a group that included long-term company employees.