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The Toll Booth That Kept a Widow From the Records
The Toll Booth That Kept a Widow From the Records
A narrow river, an eight-square-foot booth, and a red hand-lettered warning that reads DON'T - a county ledger records a toll collector beginning August 11, 1942, yet the crossing sits on an eleven-foot, three-inch stream a child could jump. Who painted the warning, why was a keeper appointed for a river too small for a ferry, and what do two photographs taken in August 1997 unlock about a widow who later vanishes from county records?
In this episode, we trace the documents, photographs, and local memories that connect a 19th-century deed to a…
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