King's Hwy tollgate

[stizkidz]

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/towns/index.ssf/2012/03/whats_in_a_name_tollgate_road.html

Interesting, non-pines related article. Interesting to note that the article states "Other local tales say the Mickleton Toll Gate was a bit further north on Kings Highway". One old map, which aludes me at the moment, does indeed place a tollgate much further north on King's Hwy (near the intersection of Parkville Station Rd and King's Hwy). I wonder which location is the correct placement?

 

[Jerseyman]

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/towns/index.ssf/2012/03/whats_in_a_name_tollgate_road.html

Interesting, non-pines related article. Interesting to note that the article states "Other local tales say the Mickleton Toll Gate was a bit further north on Kings Highway". One old map, which aludes me at the moment, does indeed place a tollgate much further north on King's Hwy (near the intersection of Parkville Station Rd and King's Hwy). I wonder which location is the correct placement?

Typical—the article is rather misleading and terribly conflates the timeline. While the Colonial Assembly did authorize a road be laid out between Burlington and Salem in 1681, the toll houses along this portion of King’s Highway date to 1851, when the New Jersey State Legislature approved an act on 6 March to incorporate the Gloucester and Salem Turnpike Company. Since the company dates to two years after publication of the 1849 map of Gloucester and Salem counties, the toll houses do not appear on that map, nor are they denoted on the 1860 Lake & Beers map of Philadelphia and Vicinity. The first maps to depict the toll houses are in the 1876 Everts & Stewart atlas of Gloucester and Salem counties. The Greenwich Township plate depicts a toll house on the west side of Kings Highway just below the intersection with Cohawkin Road. The next toll house south is actually in Woolwich Township, located just below the Kings Highway-Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road intersection. Again, the toll house stood on the west side of the turnpike. Both of these toll houses appear to be no longer extant.

Best regards,
Jerseyman

 

[stizkidz]

Jerseyman:
I am desperatley trying to find the correct map. The one I am thinking of depicts a tollgate at the intersection of Mantua Grove Rd (Parkville Station Rd) and King's Hwy.

 

[Jerseyman]

Jerseyman:
I am desperatley trying to find the correct map. The one I am thinking of depicts a tollgate at the intersection of Mantua Grove Rd (Parkville Station Rd) and King's Hwy.

Yes, that toll house appears on the West Deptford plate of the Everts and Stewart 1876 atlas. Like the others, the house stands on the west side of the road immediately below the Grove Road-Kings Highway intersection (NOT Mantua Grove Road). The toll house from this location may still exist in the small complex of buildings located closer to Mantua Creek. I have a post card of the landing that once stood here at the creek, where farmers would load their produce for shipment.

Best regards,
Jerseyman

 

[stizkidz]

You beat me to it but I found the map (1877 Hopkins map). I actually went to a yard sale at the house just across Kings Hwy from the location of that tollgate and they did have a few small buildings on the property. Perhaps one of them was the toll house.