Toll House

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Toll House appears in a 1919 State of Nevada road map on the road between Winnemucca and McDermitt.[1]

Toll House is mentioned in Perry's first-person description of the Mike Daggett incidents.[2] A 1911 newspaper states that Toll House was twelve miles north of Winnemucca.[3]

The USGS Bliss, NV 1:62500 (1959) map shows "Tollhouse (Old Stage Sta)".

Thomas Shone owned Toll House.[4]

Willow Point Station is located north of Toll House on the way to Paradise Valley.

Tollhouse appears in the GNIS downloads as 856410, but is not found on the nationalmap.gov. The GNIS download states that Tollhouse was at 41.1174016 -117.6620724.

References

  1. "Roadmap of the State of Nevada," Nevada Department of Highways, 1919
  2. "The Last Indian Uprising in the United States," Frank Vernon Perry, Winter 1972, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly.
  3. "Posse Reaches Winnemucca And Continue Chase After Indians." Humboldt Star, Winnemucca, February 24, 1911.
  4. The Shone House," Historic Winnemucca.