Tollhouse Series 7

This picture is a horse and rider and two buggies on the old Tollhouse Grade. The grade was mostly single lane and all dirt. In good weather the roadbed would become thick dust and a danger to big wagons and later cars slipping off the edge. In bad weather and mud or snow it was impossible to travel it. The grade was originally built in 1866 by John Humphreys and the Woods brothers as a toll road to haul shakes and lumber to market.