 Toll roads, especially near the East Coast, are often called "turnpikes"; the term "turnpike" originated from "pikes", which were long sticks that blocked passage until the fare was paid and the pike "turned" at a "toll house" (or "toll booth" in current terminology).In the mid to late nineteenth century, private toll road building was particularly active in the West including California and Nevada.In Nevada, over 100 private toll roads were laid out between the 1850s and 1880s, some of them nearly long.