Tollhouse, California

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Coordinates: 37°01′08″N119°23′57″W / 37.01889°N 119.39917°W / 37.01889; -119.39917

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Tollhouse
Unincorporated community
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Tollhouse in 1972
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Tollhouse
Tollhouse (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°01′08″N119°23′57″W / 37.01889°N 119.39917°W / 37.01889; -119.39917
Country United States
State California
County Fresno County
Elevation
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1,919 ft (585 m)

Tollhouse (formerly, Toll House) is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 1,919 feet (585 m). [1] Tollhouse is located in the Sierra Nevada, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Shaver Lake [2] and 18 miles southwest of Huntington Lake. [3] It is home to 2,089 people. [4]

The town was created in the 1860s around the Yancy lumber mill. The name "tollhouse" comes from the fact that the community was also built up in connection to a now-defunct toll road running up the steep slopes of Sarver Peak to Pineridge and housed a toll house.

The ZIP Code is 93667, and the community is inside area code 559.

The first post office opened in Tollhouse in 1876, closed in 1884, re-opened in 1885. [2] The last toll on the toll road was collected in 1878. [2]

Nearby small towns include Auberry, Prather, and Shaver.

Tollhouse is the tribal headquarters for the Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California. [5]

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of Tollhouse include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tollhouse, California
  2. 1 2 3 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1118. ISBN   1-884995-14-4.
  3. ↑ "Tollhouse". Tollhouse. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  4. ↑ "Best Places to Live in Tollhouse (zip 93667), California". Bestplaces.net. 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
  5. ↑ Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians. Indigenous Internet Chamber of Commerce Business Directory. (retrieved 24 July 2009)
  6. ↑ Brown, Emma. "George 'Elfie' Ballis, 85, who photographed struggle of Cesar Chávez and migrant farmworkers, dies", The Washington Post , September 27, 2010. Accessed September 29, 2010.


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