Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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PIONEER HISTORY OF INGEIAM COUNTY

and Leslie in Ingham county called a meeting and appointed a
committee to confer with the Legislature and see what could be
done. There were two forces met in the Capitol where a spirited controversy took place, Hon. Austin Blair represented the
new committee, and Judge Gridley appeared for the plank road
company.
Judge Gridley temporarily won the day, on the claim that the
work done the previous summer would compel them to collect toll
longer or face financial loss. The committee report showed that
the collection of tolls was to cease in a little over a year, but when
the time came tolls continued to be collected, until the people
arose in their wrath and took matters into their own hands. Toll
gates were broken down, toll men fought until they refused to stay
in the houses with their families, and two husky men were placed
in each toll house. Later one of the toll houses was burned, after
the inmates had been removed to a place of safety, and the perpetrators were never discovered. Soon after the other toll gate
was sold and moved away, and quiet reigned. Since that time
the road through Onolldaga has been kept up as a gravel road.