Lemmie MacLean

used to be, one can still see the old red school

house. Before my time, this farm belonged to a Mr. Munn. If one looks at the old atlas of 1880, one can see the house Where the present Captain Malcolm MacLean now resides, according to that picture in the old atlas.

Little Sands, around where the unused school now stands, was a thriving little village. You can see the number of buildings including the Munn’s Factory. In that small area to the west and south of the school, was a large public hall, three stores, a blacksmith shop, as well as a thriving post office. The mail used to come from Charlottetown. Most of the people gathered at the post office waiting for the mail. I used to hear my father talking about it.

There was a Malcolm MacLean, a stone cutter, who finally died from what they said was “stone cutter’s con- sumption." I imagine it was straight silicosis, as no one caught tuberculosis from him.

Lemmie took over the farm while Edward, his younger brother, went to live in Boston, as well as two of his sis- ters. The other two sisters married men from High Bank. Lemmie had a very big farm, and the longest barn in the country. It was over 100 feet. He always had a number 0f cows and 3 or 4 horses. He was a hard working man.

On this big farm, on which Little Sands School

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