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AT LEFT: c1902 photo showing construction of Horton's Mansion, now
Morrison Hall, Occc. Webb Horton is at left with cane, son Eugene is second from right, at bottom. BELOW: Newspaper office and staff of the Middletown Mercury and Argus in 1904. This is now the site of the public restroom building on King Street,
BELOW: In 1851, Middletown citizens organized the Middletown & Bloomingburg plank road, a path moreor-less now followed by old 17. The road was completed in the summer of 1852. Essentially, parallel ditches were dug, sills were laid in each ditch, and rough planks laid across the sills. This represented a great improvement over the muddy roads of the time. This photo shows the toll house which stood just above Beakes Avenue on the right (or cast) side of the road, just about where the car wash now is on North Street extension. Tolls were eliminated when the county bought this road in 1911,