toll keeper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Far worse, she had the distressing habit of snatching a man with each of her heads from any ship coming too close (the Strait's toll keeper, in fact!)

He trotted alone over the carriage road of the Williams-burg Bridge, before the light, while the toll keeper was sleeping by his stove and many stars were still blazing above the city.

Proceeding to Sable's Crossing, Gabriel blasted a way through the bridge, much to the disgust of the Toll keeper, and made his way to the Whitespire Mountains.

The toll keeper was Henry Holloway, and the charges included one farthing for every pig that crossed the bridge and up to eighteen pence for a carriage with four horses.

The 1830s cottage of the toll keeper at Bathurst Street and Davenport Road survives and is located in a park at the northwest corner of the intersection.

In 1856 the toll gate is still shown with a group of buildings opposite the toll keepers house and another building at the site of the Shillford Mill, probably one of the inns.

The Searle family went on to become toll keepers (toll houses were operated by private contractors during the 1800s), and would establish shopping, accommodation, shoe-making and timber businesses in the village.

Westwood then drew his pistol from his waist, and told the scared toll keeper that he was Jackey Jackey, and that he had spent the past three days in Sydney.

The small wooden toll gate, located at the intersection of today's Georgia Avenue and Dale Drive, closed in 1910 with the death of its last toll keeper, Henry Charles Ulrich (born 1849).

In 1922, the bridge was freed from tolls but it is believed that even after cessation of tolls, the retired toll keeper, a Mr Green and his daughter who lived there, continued to protect the restored bridge by dissuading drivers of heavy vehicles from crossing.

Today, Mount Victoria is a small township with a large number of historic buildings and a few attractions including the Post Office, a Hall which is used as a cinema, the Imperial Hotel, the Toll Keepers Cottage and a museum at the railway station.