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Contrary to its name and the sign, which still stands despite the building having burned down in 1984, the site was never a toll house, and it was built in 1817, not 1709. The use of "toll house" and "1709" was a marketing strategy. [2] Ruth Wakefield cooked all the food served and soon gained local fame for her desserts.
In 1930, the couple decided to purchase a historic building in Whitman, Plymouth County, which had allegedly been used as a toll house as early as 1709. [1] Building on the tradition of the house, Kenneth and Ruth elected to turn the building into a lodge, fittingly naming the new business the Toll House Inn. [6]
The Searights Tollhouse of the National Road is a historic toll house on United States Route 40, the former route of the historic National Road, north of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Built in 1835, it is one of two surviving tollhouses (out of six) built by the state of Pennsylvania to collect tolls along the portion of the road that passed through ...
Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company Toll House. January 3, 1978 : West of St. Thomas on U.S. Route 30 St. Thomas Township: 10: Chambersburg Historic ...
Watkins Ferry Toll House; Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike Company Tollhouse This page was last edited on 11 September 2016, at 17:08 (UTC). ...
The Plymouth shop closed Aug. 25 after serving the last of its remaining inventory ahead of an Aug. 28 auction of the two-parcel Whitman property, which includes the ice cream stand, a dairy ...
Firefighters battled a massive fire Thursday evening in a building that houses Tollbooth Antiques in Columbia borough in Lancaster County. Columbia Borough Fire Department posted on Facebook that ...
A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road, canal, or toll bridge. History.