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Jan 11 the Newport Turnpike Company was granted permission by the Delaware governor "to erect tollgates" according to the Dover Post newspaper. That was Jan 11 1823. The early decades of the 19th century saw heavy investments in private tollroads and turnpikes.

Dec 2007 we wrote a speculative article about a picture of an historic "Tariff of Toll Rates" sign that was identified only in the Library of Congress collection as located at the Connecticut River between Vermont and New Hampshire. It was a faded overexposed black and white photograph.

We fiddled with it Photoshop and got it barely legible.

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3305

Swinford Toll Bridge (STB), a beautiful functioning private toll bridge dating back to 1767 goes on sale at auction in London England December 6. A major London auction house Allsop is handling the sale. The bridge is located on the B4044, a 2-lane rural arterial just 8km (5 miles) to the west of the middle of Oxford, the famous university city.