The year 1971 saw the dismantling of long-time village landmarks. What is generally known by more recent Manor residents as Cyrus Gray’s gristmill, was erected by Frank Reynolds and his brother-in-law, Jack Sherwood, during the spring and summer of 1882, next to Sherwood’s wood-turning mill. The article found in the Republican Watchman newspaper, dated December 8, 1882, notes the mill’s early operation.

“The Reynolds & Co. grist mill at Livingston Manor is now doing a fine business. The building is 36x70 and 24 feet high. One hundred and eight thousand feet of lumber were used in its construction. The labor saving appliances are deserving of notice and might be judiciously applied to many of the older mills along the Ontario and Western. The grain is all stored overhead so that it can be distribute instantly at the will of the miller or his assistant. 26 tons of oats, two car loads of corn and nearly 1,000 bushels of buckwheat would remind one that the working oxen and horses need not want for food or the people about there for pancake timber. F H. Reynolds, better known as ‘Polk’ has reason to feel proud of the skill and ingenuity displayed in every part of the mill and the machinery.”

The brothers Byron and Cyrus Gray of Parksville obtained the mill in 1891 and four years later enlarged the building. Gray’s milling business continued into the late 1920s at which time the building was used for storage of tenpins up until the closing of the Burr Sherwood tenpin factory in 1964