Augustus Boehm

1834 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Augustus Boehm
  Born	CA 1834
  Gender	Male
  Business	1864	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	windmill
  		Kitchener-WindMill-0001-drawingW.H.Schmalz.jpg Built in 1861, the Albert Street (now Madison) windmill had four canvas-covered, 40-foot-wings mounted on a top that revolved to catch the wind. W.H. Schmalz sketched Berlin's first grist mill from his childhood memories of the structure. - W.V. Uttley's History of Kitchener, 1937
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-166540
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I166540	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Jacob Y. Shantz and Henry Boehmer constructed a Dutch-style windmill for recent immigrant Frederick Rickerman from Mecklenburg - a Grand Duchy in the north of today's Germany. He had operated a windmill there and convinced Shantz and Boehmer that Berlin required one. Atop Berlin's highest hill \emdash quickly known as Mecklenburg Hill \emdash on the southwest corner of today's Madison and Church Streets, there soon soared a 60-foot-high, hexagonal mill. Three sets of stones produced four bushels of flour, two bushels of barley and 25 bushels of "schrot" per hour. Rickerman purchased the structure and land from Shantz in October 1861 but sold to August Boehm in early 1863. Boehm, as described in "Vicarious Pioneer: The Life of Jacob Y Shantz," by Sam Steiner, "failed to keep up the mortgage payments and absconded" in 1864. The derelict mill was soon demolished. mills, r. (2019). Flash From the Past: Early mills of Berlin/Kitchener. KitchenerPost.ca. Retrieved 23 February 2019, from https://www.kitchenerpost.ca/living-story/9185077-flash-from-the-past-early-mills-of-berlin-kitchener/

  
  

• Sources

  [S330] Directory - ON, Waterloo - 1864 - County of Waterloo gazetteer and general business directory for 1864. Augustus Boehm Berlin Albert windmill 92

  
  

• Event Map

  Business - windmill - 1864 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth