An Old Toll House in Napa County
Date unknown
Newspaper clipping
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Private Collection
Harvard, IL

From the Julsen Collection

"The temptation is to call this old toll house on the Lawley Road in Napa county "a chapter out of the past," because it is no longer in use - the gate is now part of the railing along the cliff. But Napa county is just now protesting over the tolls which private industry is allowed to collect over the national highway artery at Carquinez Bridge, and when the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges are completed there will be a total of five "feudal" barriers around the San Francisco moat - the Bay. The only untaxed entrance into San Francisco is the Peninsula highway. Artist Burbank, in drawing Napa County's abandoned toll house, ran across some of the old toll rates, 18 years ago, as follows: Horse and buggy 50 cents; two-horse team and wagon 75 cents; six-horse team and wagon $1.25; saddle horse 10 cents; loose horses or cattle 10 cents each; hogs, sheep and goats 3 cents each; motor cycles 25 cents; two-passenger automobiles 75 cents; five passenger automobiles $1.00. Round trips were twice as much in each case - no reduction for coming back."