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" Grand daddy, what is a toll gate?" was the questionn propounded to me the other day by my ten-year-old grandson. He had read of one in1 a story book
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and while he was acquainted with numerous gates a toll gate was a new one on him. Of coursre, I explained it to him—and then I began to think of the gradual disappearance of the toll gates and of how natural it was for my grandson to ask the question, and it occurred to me it might interest a number of the presenl generation to give them about the same information 1 gave'to him.
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17 W. Pennsylvania Avenue
TOWSON, MD.
Phone, Towson 357
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Provides for its patrons' service and equipment of particular excellence.
Property is patrolled day and night by duly authorized officers.
Superintendent's Office and car stop Reisterstown Road Entrance, Pikesville. Phones, 159—201.
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(W. F. WOODEN, Successor)
Funeral Directors
108 WEST NORTH AVENUE
BALTIMORE. MD
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of Maryland for turnpikes—and some were built of stone. The York turnpike, the Harford turnpike, and the Hanover turnpike were constructed under these charters. The companies were authorized by their charters to collect toll for the use of the road and toll gates were placed from three to five miles apart. A toll-collector, of course, was necessary at each gate, so the companies jhad a house for his use.
A toll gate was simply a pole j that was raised or lowered across j the road to stop the traveler until ! he paid his toll. To give an idea of the number of gates on the roads—take the York turnpike to illustrate. Coming from Baltimore in the old days the first was located at Waverly, the second at Govanstown,. the third just below Towson, the fourth at the 10-mile post at Timonium, the fifth two miles north of Cockeysville, the sixth at Piny Hill, the seventh at Parkton. During the day the gates were as a rule kept open, but the keeper was always on the lookout, but at night they were closed and if the keeper happened to be a heavy sleeper you had to wait a timevwith patience until your "hellos" aroused him and he had,time to dress.
There was a law that made it a misdemeanor to refuse to pay toll or to use the roads and avoid the gates. Some of the gate keepers were very cranky and disagreeable, and were always looking for trouble, and they very often got it. It occasionally happened that there would be a dispute over the amount of toll; the teamster would refuse to pay and the gate keeper would lock the gate and then the teamster would hitch his horses to it and pull it down. The Court records will disclose more than one case of that kind.
There was a very cranky old farmer whose place was very near a toll gate in the upper end of the county who fell out with the gate keeper. His toll was two cents and when he passed through he would tender a $20 bill. He did this a number of times and the gate keeper could not change
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TOWSON, MD. Phone, Towson 110
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FRANK Ii WHEELER & Ofiirtt Bldg., TOWSON, MD. &
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Jewelry, Watches, Silverware, &c.
212 North Charles Street A
Baltimore, Md.
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Look for 511 on the Big Electric Sign on the south side of the street. Open until 10 o'clock Saturday.
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511 W. Franklin Street
Between Paca and Greene NO BRANCH STORES.
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510 Penna. Ave. BALTIMORE, MD
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it, so he determined to get even. He had a $20 bill changed "into specie, the greater portion of it being 10c, 5c and penny pieces. So the next time the farmer offered his $20 bill he took it and handed him the specie in a paper sack in change. They had quite a war of words, but the transaction was closed, and ever afterward the farmer had the two cents ready when he passed through. A toll gate very close to Towson was the scene of a terrible murder a few years ago which no one has forgotten. Old Mr. Rinehart was the keeper of the gate just beyond the Hampton cstnlc on the Dnlany's Valley turnpike. Isaac Winder and his nephew, Ben Winder (colored), tempted by the toll money they supposed he kept in the
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house, went there one night and murdered him. Isaac was hanged at Towson and Ben was convicted in Harford County of murder in the second degree and sentenced to eighteen years in the Penitentiary.
When Maryland awoke to its duty to its citizens and went into the road business the toll gate in Maryland was doomed, for the State took over one turnpike after another until they were all
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State highways and then the toll gates automatically disappeared. The toll gate, like the stage coach and the scythe, are gone forever—and yet we are not happy.
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204 N. Liberty St. or 803 W. 36th St. Baltimore, Maryland
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Reisterstown Road, North Hills of The Green Spring Valley, at The Sign of The Purple Light,
Twenty Minutes From City.
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Restaurant open from 2 P. M. until 1.30 A. M. daily. Week Days Entertainment from 7 P. M. to 1.30 A. MJ
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