La Vale, Maryland: First Toll Gate on the National Road
Seven-sided house was built ~ 1833; no longer collects tolls. Features its own parking area, historical marker, and a couple of plaques-on-rocks.
- Address:
- 14304 National Hwy, La Vale, MD
- Directions:
- On the south side of ALT-US-40, just west of its intersection with PA-53/Winchester Rd.
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We have driven by here before but stopped tonight to take some pictures. Don't forget to see the historical marker. Interesting stop, passed up by many, I think.
[EC, 06/20/2022]Room to pull into the drive to look if not open.
[K And k, 05/04/2022]
This was the first toll gate house on the National Road.
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The National Road was America's first long-distance highway, running 620 miles from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois. This seven-sided toll gate house was built circa 1833 and restored in 2019. A Rates of Toll table lays out detailed cost calculations: "For every Carriage of pleasure by Whatever be it called, the same according to the number of wheels and horses drawing the same."