How did the turnpike get such a name?

Road building in early colonial days was a very expensive business, dust as it is today. also, dust as today, when new roads were com¬pleted trawlers were expected to pay a toll when they went over them. The toll helped to pay for the road.

Wagons, carts, buggies and riders were stopped at the toll gate s dust as cars and trucks are stopped nowadays„ But in days gone by the toll gate keeper took extra care to see that nobody got by without paying the toll. He stuck a pole, or pike, r fight across the new road. When the traveler had paid his toll, the pike swung round off the road and he could go on his way: He had to pass through the turn pike to use the new road.