Top 3 Abandoned Places In Wilmot Township

There are so many abandoned places in Wilmot Township! This is a list of the top three abandoned places in Wilmot Township. Browse through all abandoned places in Wilmot Township

1. The Chrysler And The Well

This was a Google Maps find. It straight told me all I needed to know to drag my mom and Pikaswed420 with me into the woods to try to find these strange, out of place items. And it made for a decent outing.

Im not so sure its a "well" so much a a concrete pipe put at a very weak natural spring. I will never know. The rotted Chrysler was the highlight for me. To be honest, the well makes better photos than it is interesting.

No idea what these are, or how they got here. Neat tho. Thanks Maps!

(On Google, someone suggested that the Chrysler was trying to get TO or FROM the well and died. I cant say either way, although it is facing AWAY from the well)

NOTE: MARKER IS DROPPED HALFWAY BETWEEN THE 2 ‘’LOCATIONS''. FOLLOWING IT DIRECTLY WILL NOT TAKE YOU TO THESE.

2. Condemned House- Baden

• April 17, 2012 Update: The house is gone! It looks like it saw its end this weekend.

I am not sure the exact status of this house at the moment but I believe it is currently condemned. There is a note in the window. When I first drove by it I thought maybe it was a notice for renovations, but months later nothing has happened.

There is no way inside and it is surrounded by very nice homes with watchful neighbours. It also happens to be on the main road through Baden.

If you're looking for some exterior shots or are in the area maybe worth a quick stop. Otherwise, keep on driving.

3. Stauffer Pioneer Cemetery

The Bean [a.k.a. Biehn] Family on Bean Road. John Biehn with his bride Anna Shierich arrived in Wilmot Township from Doon, Ontario in 1833. He purchased a 200 acre block of wooded forest from the Crown Lot 24, Concession 3 for 125 English pounds , one mile southwest of Haysville. As required by all pioneer families on Crown land, part of the purchase price was to build a log house and clear so many acres of land for agricultural purposes. Here they lived the rest of their lives with their eleven children. John and Anna set aside a half acre of their farm for a meeting house which was known as the Biehn Mennonite Church for nearly one hundred years. It is now called the Nith Valley Church. Anna Sheirich Bean died in 1881 at the age of 63. John Bean died in 1898 at the age of 86. They are buried in this cemetery along with their children as follows: Simon, son, died in infancy. Levi, eldest son, died at 17 years as a result of a runaway team accident. Nancy, married Charles Daniells, died in 1873 in Virginia, U.S.A. The Biehns were natives of Switzerland and the first generation arrived in 1742 and settled in Pennsylvania. One of the sons of John and Anna, David Bean, started teaching in schools at Blenheim, Baden and Washington, ON., at the age of 16. In 1889 he became the sole owner of The Waterloo Chronicle [kept in family til 1954] and Berlin's Daily Telegraph in 1893. Later David became the first chairman of the Waterloo Water Commisssion and then Mayor of Waterloo in 1901.