Baumhart Dairy Farm

As a follow-up to Friday's post...

Having only lived in Vermilion since 2018, I'm still learning about the history of the city. I've written a few posts (mainly about Colonel Henry Brown) that included some history about the Baumhart family that had a farm where the Ford Motor Company plant was built in the late 1950s.

But I had no idea that there was a Baumhart farm, specifically a dairy farm, that was located west of Vermilion.

Rich Tarrant's great Vermilion Views website has some mentions of the "very productive dairy farm on the west side of the village" and the Baumhart family members connected with it. But I still wasn't sure where it was located.

Fortunately, I was able to located the Baumhart name on a few vintage township maps. Here's a portion of the 1974 map. The Baumhart name is listed under the (29).

And here's the same area, circa 1896.

And here's the same area today, courtesy of Google Maps.

When I overlay the last two maps, it looks like the Baumhart dairy farm property was located roughly where you see a rail line splitting off from the more northerly line, connecting it to the other rail line. 

This is approximately near Dayton Court (by the Wayside Inn), east of Coen Road. This is all a rough guess on my part.

Anyway, the only mention of the Baumhart Dairy Farm that I could locate in the Lorain Journal online archives was a small article saying that it had been sold. Here's the blurb that ran in the paper on March 7, 1927.