The former Searight's tollhouse is a small, red brick octagonal building with a one-story rectangular wing on the south elevation. Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it was one of six tollhouses located every fifteen miles along the National Road between Pennsylvania's southern and western borders and was in use until 1905. Only two tollhouses remain; this one and another in Somerset County (
SO15). Searight's, now a museum, was restored in 1966 under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and is listed on the National Register
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Searight's Tollhouse Museum
1835, Captain Richard Delafield. U.S. 40, 5 miles west of Uniontown
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