After Jeremiah Borst died suddenly in 1880, his Snoqualmie wife Kate was left with many debts. In 1884, Mary Miller bought Tollgate Farm at auction as an investment property, and Kate Borst struggled to pay rent on her former home. By 1889, the Seattle, Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad had reached North Bend and crossed the western edge of Tollgate, while the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul soon ran along its eastern fields. Samuel Gustin and George Tibbetts took over the store at Tollgate Farm, and a series of renters lived there, including James Rees, J. Burk, H. P. Darrow, and the Peticolas brothers. The farmers paid rent to the Miller family and sometimes also a percentage of their orchard and field crops. Tollgate operated as a dairy farm for a time, but low milk prices made it hard for tenants to pay. In 1921, the farm was leased to Swiss immigrant George Wyrsch. Construction of the Sunset Highway demolished the old Fares Barn in 1922, and Washington State paid $4,000 in compensation. Swiss carpenter Arnold Eichmann then designed a new milking barn for the farm, and the Wyrsch family extensively remodeled the 1904 house. They worked the farm until 1943, and during Prohibition George Wyrsch ran a still under the farmhouse and sold moonshine. He also raised broccoli, brussels sprouts, and peas for canneries in Mount Vernon. After the Wyrsch family moved into town in 1943, Ernie Hibbert leased Tollgate Farm until 1952. Hibbert milked 50 cows and rented out horses to sportsmen to supplement the dairy operation. During Prohibition, barn dances at Tollgate featured piano, accordions, fiddles, and drums, with waltzes, schottisches, polkas, and two-steps.