son Edgar. It was then sold to Horace Marshall ; a combination of burrowing muskrats and spring freshets had undermined the building, and it was no longer used as a mill. In March, 1848 a carding and cloth mill was moved from Char- lottetown to "", West Covehead by its owner, Samuel Gurney . At this time it was described as a cloth mill: ??? Blue and Grey Homespun , intended to be fulled and pressed, will be finished without interruption, but the dyeing and dressing of White Cloth is unavoid?? ably suspended until the first week in June, (from The Islander, June 2, 1848). This mill continued to operate through 1861, but we find no mention of it in the 1871 census, where the Gurneys are listed as farmers. In 1946 George Ross had a lumber mill on at Corner , near where the telephone boxes are today; it was powered with a gasoline engine. This mill was sold to John MacLean of Belle River , who moved it to land now owned by Reginald Ross . In 1952 it was sold to Mervyn Robison , who moved the mill from the to a spot on his own land next to Leslie McCabe 's property. Blacksmiths The first blacksmith in Stanhope was Robert Auld , who came on the Falmouth in 1770. In 1841 John Hughes is mentioned as a blacksmith in Covehead West, followed by Benjamin Hughes , who served the district as smith for many years. William Stead from Mill Cove , married Mary Lawson , widow of Robert Bovyer of Stanhope , in 1825, and he probably worked here as a blacksmith before moving to Wheatley River , where he had a forge. One of the Stead daughters, Mary, married one Alexander Oxley , a blacksmith who had a forge in Stanhope on the in front of the present Thome house; remains and artifacts from this forge were turned up by road machines when the was widened in 1922. A little later, George MacMillan served the districts of West Covehead , , York , Stanhope , Grand Tracadie , Millcove , and Suffolk from his forge, which was at first situated where Ira MacDonald now lives. George MacMillan built this house, and the forge was located here from 1903 until 1920, when George sold the property and bought the Hughes/Lank house and land, next to the present . In 1950 George retired and moved with his wife to Parkdale . In his "smithing" days, George made wood sleighs, wagon wheels, spokes, rebuilt hubs and rims for wheels, repaired and renewed farm equipment and shod horses. Later still, Joseph Robison and Keith Douglas were part-time blacksmiths in Stanhope . Another local blacksmith was John Russell . He came from 45