Addison Toll House
Kodak EasyShare Z730 Zoom
2009
Shortly after the old National Road enters Pennsylvania from Maryland, you come upon this odd little building. It was a toll house, built in the 1830s when the government turned the road over to the states through which it passed. They had to pay somehow to maintain the road, and so Pennsylvania tolled it.
A tollkeeper lived in the toll house rent free, and was paid a salary for his work.
The toll rate depended on what you were driving. And I use that term broadly: either you were driving a vehicle, usually beast-drawn, or you were driving herds. But if your vehicle had wheels wider than eight inches, it was free, because it helped compact the road.
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I learned something new today! Thank you!
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Information you will probably never be able to use, but there it is nevertheless!
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Strange things happen … my comment is gone ;(
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Well isn’t that weird. It shows up on my admin panel. Let me see if I can restore it.
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Found it. It’s on my 2009 post that used the same photo. Don’t know how! https://blog.jimgrey.net/2009/05/21/addison-toll-house/
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I made one comment to the toll house and on to the old bridge with the swines ;) and both had dissapeared.
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I see them. Check again:
https://blog.jimgrey.net/2014/06/11/neat-creatures-2-cents/
https://blog.jimgrey.net/2009/05/21/addison-toll-house/
Scroll to the bottom of the comments!
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Hmm, … interresting … on my wordpress reader today I saw both posts, the toll house and the neat creature. Finally I posted a comment to the neat creature … “reminds me on a German song “Männer sind Schweine” … but this comment is … lost.
Maybe I should lean back and relax my eyes a little bit … they’r stressed by the test shots with a Summacron today ;)
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How strange that they appeared in your reader today – they are old posts. And as for Maenner sind Schweine, I remember this song was sort of a hit in the 80s:
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Really strange …the last two or three days I get allways two single frame posts from you in my reader. Thought you re-post some ;)
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I’m sending two “single frame” posts each day this week. But the two you commented on — I don’t know why those showed up in the reader as they are both quite old! Weird.
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… seems I‘m dancing the time warp ;)
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