Ginseng sketch by Vicki Allen Cook Dalvay-by-the-Sea, were great tourist attractions; visitors came here year after year, and gradually farmers began selling parts of their land as cottage lots and for tourist operations. From the 1930 s on there were increasing numbers of Islanders and off-Islanders building cottages here, and setting up campgrounds, motels and cottage rentals. The Stanhope peninsula was originally divided into five farms of 200 acres each in 1790; by 1880 these had become ten farms of 100 acres each, and now this same area comprises 450 cottage lots, with over 200 owners. There are only three full-time farmers in Stanhope now, where in the 1880 s there were forty-two. With paved roads and easy access to Charlottetown and other centres, there are year-round "commuters", and retired people, who have nothing to do with farming. Truly we have had a "Quiet Revolution" since the early days of a com?? pletely agricultural community. Mills It has been said that "A settler, a stream and a mill" were the basis for a community; certainly mills were very important in the economy of early days. The first grist mill in Stanhope was the fourth built by David Lawson to survive two runaway fires and one flood. For an account of Lawson's trials and tribulations over these mills, please 43