The museum about the National Road is the National Road and Zane Grey
Museum (614) 872-3134.  I do not know of any plank roads on the National Road
however.  A good book to look at for old toll houses is the Old Pike
Illustrated by Searight or the National Road by Karl Raitz.

Mary Ames Sheret wrote:
>You might contact a museum in eastern Ohio that focuses on the old
National
>Road. I forget the official title of the museum, but look in the AAM
Museum
>Directory. It may be in Zanesville?? Someone else may remember the right
>name. There were toll houses on the national road, of course, so they
may
>have what you are looking for.
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>(Please excuse the cross-posting)
>>
>>The Lake County Museum is in the planning phase of completing their new
>>permanent exhibits, to be installed in the Fall of 1999. One of the
>>components of the exhibit will be dealing with the aspect of commuting
(from
>>Lake County to Chicago).  We're looking to make a comparison between a
toll
>>house on a plank road to a modern tollway.
>>
>>
>>My question is:
>>Does anyone have, in their collection, a picture/line drawing/etching
of a
>>toll house on a plank road from the 1830s-1850s?
>>
>>
>>Thank you in advance!
>>
>>Seline Herz-Fischler
>>Intern-Lake County Museum
>>27277 Forest Preserve Drive
>>--
>>Seline Herz-Fischler
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