America’s Historic Roads
Puzzle 19 · The National Road West · Page 35 in print
Pennsylvania Tollhouses
Pennsylvania’s National Road tollhouses combined a collection tower, family living space, and a toll gate across the road.
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Addison
Pennsylvania town containing the Petersburg tollhouse.
Delafield
Richard Delafield, engineer of the Petersburg tollhouse.
Fayette County
Pennsylvania county whose historical society maintains Searights.
Hopwood
William Hopwood, the tollhouse contractor.
Hugh Keys
Commissioner named in the 1835 tollhouse agreement.
Kitchen
Domestic room in the restored Searights tollhouse.
Living Room
Domestic room in the restored Searights tollhouse.
Native Stone
Locally obtained stone used for the Petersburg tollhouse.
Petersburg
The stone tollhouse at Addison.
Searights
Brick tollhouse on Pennsylvania’s National Road.
Stephen Hill
Commissioner named in the 1835 tollhouse agreement.
Thomas Telford
British engineer associated with the standard tollhouse plan.
Toll Collector
Official collecting payment from road users.
Toll Gate
Gate where road users paid the toll.
Toll Rates
Fees charged for different types of road traffic.
Sources
- National Park Service, The National Road Special Resource Study, July 1994NPS History
- SAH Archipedia building entry PA-01-SO15Society of Architectural Historians / University of Virginia Press
- Searights TollhouseNational Road Heritage Corridor
- Daughters of the American Revolution, site ownerdar.org