Toll House Inn
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The Toll House Inn was an inn located in Whitman, Massachusetts, established in 1930 by Kenneth and Ruth Graves Wakefield. The Toll House chocolate chip cookies are named after the inn.
The restored sign of the Toll House Inn, with a commemorative plaque underneath
Toll House Inn Restaurant, Route 18, Whitman, Massachusetts, prior to destruction in 1984 fire
Tollhouse
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A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road, canal, or toll bridge.
Toll House Inn
…are named after the inn. Contrary to its name and the sign, which still stands despite the building having burned down in 1984, the site was never a toll house, and it was built in 1817, not 1709. The use of "toll house" and "1709" was a marketing strategy. Ruth Wakefield cooked all the food served and soon…
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Toll House in Burke, Vermont. This house was home to the toll collector for the road on Burke Mountain.
Toll house at the Bratch Locks, Wombourne, on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, circa 1772
The Grochów Tollhouse in Praga-Południe, Warsaw, Poland