The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-08-03
OLD TOLL GATE RECORD
FOUND; TO BE PRESERVED
Day-BoOk To Be Displayed At
Restored Toll House On Ri. 40

Restored Toll House On Rt. 40
Residents of Garrett and Allegany
counties who enjoy perusing historical
records, are taking considerable inter
est Just now in a toll-keeper's day
hook. which has been in the possession
Of the Engle family Of Eckhart fol
fifty years.
1t was brought to light recently by
Mrs. Lester Engle, who states that the
book was carefully kept by Mrs. Will
liam Engle, who died in 1917. The
book, according to Mrs. Engle, came
into the possession of her husband
grandparents when they resided near
the Six Mile House a half-century ago
Tolls On Credit
The book contains a record of toll
charges, many of them listed "to Cum
berland and back, from April 3, 1845,
to May IA, 1847, and discloses that the
paving of toll in the case of response
bic men was done on a credit basis
The accounts indicate that the owners
Of teams were charged each time their
drivers passed the toll house, and each
month a settlement was made. Accord
inc to the records, the accounts were
paid promptly each month.
Among the names against whom the
largest charges were made and who
regularly paid their bills were: Will
liam, Thomas and Joshua Johnson, pi-
oneer lumber dealers; William and
Isaiah Frost, operators of lumber
mills at Shade Mills, Garrett county;
J. H. Hoblitzell, from whom the Hit
chins Brothers bought their present
store in Frostburg in 1854; Meshack
Frost, founder of Frostburg; Nelson
Beall; Thomas Porter, an inn keeper
of that day; H. T. Weld, British sub
iect, who once lived on the Schellhaus
farm in Mt. Savage; Alden Clary
whose family gave Clarysville its
name; George W. Halter, a prominent
resident of Frostburg, who is said tt
have helped establish the Masonic fra
ternity there in 1854; DR.. Joseph
Getzendanner, at one time Frostburg
leading physician; Robert McCulloh, a
member of one of the pioneer families
of Frostburg, and Henry Wagner, of
Garrett county.
Other Names
Others who paid large daily toll
charges and whose accounts were al
ways promptly settled were the fol-
lowing residents of Allegany and Gar
rett counties: Daniel Bruce, John Huff
man or Hoffman, William Dawson
Thomas CLANCY, William Conradf Will
liam Ridgeley, Jesse W. CLANCY, John
Young, John Reckner, F. R. Shepperd
Joseph Dilley, John Hoye, William
Thomson, Eli Ridgeley, Henry War
rem, Daniel B. Dorsey, Hiram Sutton
Maryland and New York Iron and
Coal Company, Peter Uhl, Henry Nc
Kinsey, Owen C. Askins, Jonathan
Huddleson, Charles Williams, Henry
Wagus, Emmanuel Gnagey, Levi Tay-
lor, George Arnold, Charles HoltzmaH
and Mr.. Magruder.
Notations in the book indicate that
at times it was taken from the toll
house between Frostburg and Cumber-
land on the National highway to the
tollgate on Savage Mountain, proba'
bly, for comparison. Such a notation
is as follows: flames Howe, Cumber'
land, Allegany county, his hand anc
pen; Ronald C. Sipe, Cumberland, Al
legany county, his hand and pen, this
31st day of December, 1916. We al
here spent New Years Eve at the
Tollgate No. 2 on the Big Savage"
The book has been presented to the
owners of the toll house on the Ma
tional highway, who plan to have II
placed in a glass case and preserved
for all who care to see it.