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Old Harding Pike Marker
Photographer: Ilene Jones Cornwell
Taken: 1967
Caption: Old Harding Pike Marker
Additional Description: Across the Harpeth Valley from the Davis-Hicks home stood the circa 1845 tollhouse beside Richland Turnpike (now Old Harding Road), west of the Harpeth River bridge. The general route of the Richland Creek and Wharton Road was in existence in 1809, but it wasn't until 1843 that the Richland Turnpike Company was chartered to extend the road to the "west bank of Harpeth and bridge the same." The tollhouse was staffed by a gatekeeper, who collected the appointed (by turnpike charter) tolls and raised the long wooden tollgate to allow passage for those traveling to and from Nashville through the Harpeth Valley. The log structure stood until 1971, when it was demolished. In: Big Harpeth River by Ilene Jones Cornwell http://www.civicscope.org/nashville-tn/BigHarpethRiver (Photograph copyright (c) 1967 by Ilene Jones Cornwell.)
Submitted: April 20, 2017, by Steve Masler of Memphis, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p380848
File Size: 0.159 Megabytes

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