Lydia Tucker stands in the Ednor booth that collected tolls from travelers along the old Colesville Pike (New Hampshire Avenue). The Annals of 1908 record a "banner day in the history of the Ednor tollgate, $9.00 in cash being collected, mainly from twenty-seven automobiles en route from Baltimore to Washington."

The threshing crew of Ednor's George Richardson traveled from farm to farm in the 1920s and '30s, "thrashing" neighbors' wheat, rye, and barley. The men's work was hard, hot, dusty--and dangerous: Thresher Joe Miller wore a sock over a wrist from which the hand had been torn by his machine. Threshing day--always, it seemed, the hottest day of the year--was also an ordeal for the housewife. In her sweltering kitchen, often over a wood stove, she prepared a full-scale farm repast for the grimy men at lunchtime. Ednor resident Henry Latleif also ran a thresher.