Today I'd call this area Campbell's Pond, New Glasgow, however, in Meacham's 1880 Atlas this area is known as Clyde Mill's (on the River Clyde), Lot 23. As late as the 1935 telephone directory lists Mrs. Mary Bagnall at Clyde Mill's.
It's amazing to think this view coming over the bridge is much as it would have looked 134 years ago when an illustration of it appeared in Meacham's Atlas - see that image below - this house is #9 as noted on the bottom of the illustration.
When I got to the end of the Campbell's Road (which this property is on the corner) I turned left on to Mount Tom Road, which is very close beside this house and farmyard. It feels as though you're in their yard but the road continues past the barns, down a little hill, then up a steep hill (probably Mount Tom) - a beautiful one-lane country road which comes out above the PEI Preserve Company on to Route 224, the New Glasgow Road.
In Meachams' 1880 Atlas of Prince Edward Island, Page 86, it shows William and Richard Bagnall owning 100-acres here.
In Cumin's 1928 Atlas of Prince Edward Island it shows Mrs. R.E. Bagnall living here with her three daughter, Ella, Nettie and Blanche. She had 126-acres.
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The following info cf. Lovell’s Prince
Edward Island Directory, 1871
Clyde Mills:
A small village in township No. 23, parish of Grenville, county of
Queen's. Population about 60. [foot note says " The post office is at New
Glasgow."]
Bagnall, Richard E. - of Bagnall & Son
BAGNALL, WILLIAM - J.P., Bagnall & Son(1) Crawford, rev. Donald - baptist |
Doucet, Lemange - joiner, farmer
Doucet, Peter - farmer Warren, John - head miller |
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