The Lafayette Road bridge over the Taylor River, ca. 1896

The Lafayette Road bridge over the Taylor River, ca. 1896

Hall, Newton Marshall

Hampton Causeway Turnpike Association

Taylor River

Rivers

Bridges

Shunpike

Toll Roads

The Lafayette Road bridge over the Taylor River, near the border with Hampton Falls, ca. 1896. The Hampton Causeway Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808 to build a permanent road over the marshes to Hampton Falls. For a number of years it was a toll road, which aggravated so many travelers that a crude bridge called the "shunpike" was thrown over the river farther upstream. Despite the more circuitous route, many people preferred taking the free road over paying a toll. The towns of Hampton and Hampton Falls purchased the road and bridge from the corporation in 1826, for a price of $5,000, after which the "turnpike" became a free road. Originally published in "New England Magazine", July 1896, in an article by Newton Marshall Hall entitled "Old Hampton in New Hampshire". See link to the article below.

Hampton and Hampton Beach by Teschek, p.10.

New England Magazine, July 1896.

Randall's History of Hampton, p.484.

1896

BT

Lane Memorial Library

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Lafayette Road South

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