Former Tollgate Station

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Former Tollgate Station is a picture, with genre photograph.

It was created in 1997.

Sharon Flint Residents' Association Historical Committee is the Contributor.

The Lawson House is located at the corner of Park Road and Worthington-Galena Road. According to the Intelligencer (1993), residents in the area reported that it was once a tollgate station on the Worthington to Westerville Free Pike. An 1872 map of Sharon Township shows a tollgate station was located on the site.

Ralph and Iantha Lawson, an African American couple, purchased this home and the surrounding acres in the 1930s. They farmed the land for many years. They later platted the area for residential homesites and constructed a road called Lawson Drive. The Lawson home still exists. Other homes have been built on Lawson Drive.

It covers the topics buildings and African Americans.

It features the people Iantha Lawson, ?-1969 and Ralph Lawson, Sr., ?-1970.

It covers the city Columbus. It covers the area Flint.

You can find the original at Sharon Flint Residents' Association Historical Committee.

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is sfr0002.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on September 25, 2002. It was last updated December 17, 2021.