Five miles west of downtown Cumberland in the suburb of LaVale, the 1833 toll gate house is the only one of its type still standing in Maryland. It is a small, seven-sided brick building set right against the old road, with a hipped roof and the original toll-collector's window facing the highway.
The interior is normally closed but is open occasionally for tours run by the Allegany County Historical Society. Even from the outside, the building is worth a five-minute stop if you are heading west on US-40 — a tangible piece of America's first federally-funded highway.