162 A Bridge To The Past 
     
    
   
   
    
             
     
    
   
   
    
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     Senior students ofthe Wilmol Valley School in 1948. (L.-R.).' Betty Huesris, Marjorie 
     
     Hues/1's, Gwenme Clark, Phyllis Hogg, Beulah Jardine, Shirley Agnew. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the right is [he schoolhouse and in the background is the Sobey home. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The land surrounding the junction of the Blueshank and Route 120 or 
     
     the “New Arman" Road, as many of us call it, could be the basis for a small 
     
     history of its own, if one could obtain complete information on its homes 
     
     and residents. At present one finds the Reynolds property on one corner, 
     
     the homes of Melbourne Sobey and Richard Bulger on the next corner, and 
     
     the Prince County REACT Centre opposite to the Bulger home. The 
     
     REACT Centre, which was formerly the schoolhouse, replaced the original 
     
     log schoolhouse, and has been moved once, and also turned once so that its 
     
     windows now face to the west. The Wilmot Grove Road has been changed 
     
     twice. The postmaster, the shoemaker and the schoolchildren are gone and 
     
     at least four houses have disappeared from the corner, as well as the marble- 
     
     working shop, blacksmith shop and community hall. Still only part of the 
     
     story is told, because we know so little about many of the families who lived 
     
     here. With such information as we have, we will begin with the Reynolds 
     
     property. 
     
    

    
     The lot of land adjoining the Crozier lot is the site of a large house 
     
     which Mr. Cyril Reynolds now rents. This land as well as the complete tract 
     
     of two hundred and fifty acres which borders the New Annan road and 
     
     stretches from the Blueshank to the New Annan boundary, belonged at one 
     
    
   
   
    
     time to William Scincebock. The first record of a change of ownership 
     
     occurs when the southernmost fifty acres is willed to Calvin Lefurgey in 
     
     1866 from his father, James. Calvin owned the land still in 1880. However 
     
     the first families to live on the Reynolds property were the Pridhams and the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Corishes.