For Whom the Trains, Tunnels, and Tolls?

NOTE FROM NON-BORING HOUSE A Little Extra For Nonnies on the Thames Tunnel, a Toll on America's First Superhighway, and More!

The La Valle Toll House, one of the last two on US 40, which was once the National Road, America's first cross-country road, taking travelers from Washington DC to faraway Indiana. Image: Annette Laing, 2022

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