toll keeper

Upon payment of the prescribed fee the toll keeper would raise the bar across the road to enable the vehicle or animal to pass.

Among the dead Federals was the civilian toll keeper who perished near his tollgate.

In December 1863, Ward tried to take money from the toll keeper on the road between Maitland and Rutherford.

As he left, he told the toll keeper that his name was "Captain Thunderbolt".

The bridge opened in 1867 with its builder, Richard Casey, as toll keeper.

The "toll keeper" complained, "I hate those things," lifted the gate and cheerfully went on to the next car.

Walton sits north of the junction between two major turnpike roads, and was once the location of a toll gate and the toll keeper's cottage.

The first toll keeper was John Kirk Smith who was born in Nottingham, England, in 1818.

The 1826 map shows Shillford Toll on the Lochlibo turnpike and the crossroads with a probable toll keeper's house.

Thus his band could easily make a living as toll keepers and fur brokers, buying and selling furs for profit.