LEARDS MILL HATS AND T-SHIRTS FOR SALE, HELP SAVE LEARDS MILL WITH EACH PURCHASE. $10 for Hats and $13 for T-shirts. Now available at the Canadian Potato Museum, O’Leary, Prince Edward Island. Phone: (902) 859-2039.
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JoDee Samuelson (Old Mills of PEI Map, 1996) has calculated = in 1871 there were 117 grist mills on Prince Edward Island - 27 west of Summerside! Today we have one (1) left on the whole Island, Leard's Mill, and it needs to be saved!!!!
Above: 1888 Leard's Mill, southwest view from the Buchanan Road, Coleman.
I took these photos in the fall of 2014.
Above: west view of Leard's Mill from the Confederation Trail.
Above info cf. A Light in the Field by H.M. Scott Smith's book, Mills,of PEI.
Above page cf. Past & Present: A History of Brae. Page 149.
Above: JoDee Samuelson's, Old Mills of Prince Edward Island Map, 1996.