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Black and white photo showing large barn in middle ground with a grove of trees to the right. Roth notes "black and white photo taken in early 1980s. Boshart -> Jantzi -> Nafziger farm" and "The Christian and Catherine (Litwiller) Boshart Homestead".

Brick one and a half story house with addition on the back. Roth notes "John R. Brenneman 1962/63, John Ropp 1874-1907, Catherine Brenneman 1907-1933, Barbara W. Brenneman 1933-1962".

Green field on foreground of picture. Farm with red buildings and two tall concrete silos in distance on right.

Field in foreground, white house in middle ground with more fields in the background. Roth notes "2-storey log house built by / for Rudolph & Maria (Litwiller) Roth".

Two low stone walls in foreground of photo, with large tree immediately behind second wall. Behind tree is light blue coloured two story house. Roth notes "Gable end of 2-story log house - garden between stone wall and house".

Corn field in foreground, hill with cell phone tower on top in distance. Roth notes "View of Baden Hill from Trussler Rd.?"

Two story white house with siding and closed in porch at front of house. Roth notes "2-storey log - owned by Amandus Studer in 1861 census (no date given)".

Photo shows white house on right and tree on left. Roth notes "frame house on right built later front faces west (used for storage in 1997)".

Three story brick building with lower portion of building built out of stone. Porch on front of building. Green roof with red gable ends containing two small windows. Roth notes "3-storey brick building erected by / for Peter Tschirhart 1850/51 hotel, residence, store, etc."

Bare brown field in foreground. Gray barn with forebay in middle ground and in centre of picture. Gray shed to right of barn. Roth notes "built in 1887".

The house is in three distinct sections. To the left was the smoke house and wash house/woodshed, dated by Lorraine Roth as possibly 1858.The middle section was a summer kitchen. The part on the right, a storey and a half stone structure, was the Doddyhaus. These buildings were behind the two-storey log house house occupied first by Nicholas and Anna (Ernst) Lichti, followed by Nicholas and Barbara (Schmidt) Lichti, and the Rudolph Kropf family. Later, it became the Dappled Pegasus Bed and Breakfast.

Green field in foreground. Middle ground shows white house on left with gray barn on right. Tree in between house and barn.

Close up view of white tombstone, mounted on post supporting a roof. Roth notes "Peter Sommer tombstone transferred from New Hamburg Cemetery in 1930s to Riverside Cemetery southeast of town on southwest corner of pergola".

Dark blue plaque with gold-coloured edge. Plaque reads "The First Amish Settlement In 1822 Christian Nafziger, an Amish Mennonite from Munich, Germany, came to Upper Canada to find land on which to settle some 70 German families. With the assistance of a group of Mennonites headed by Jacob Erb, who had settled nearby,a petition was made to the government for land here in present-day Wilmot Township. Surveyed two years later by John Goessman, this German Block was people primarily by Amish from Europe. In 1824-25 Bishop John Stoltzfus of Pennsylvania organized the first congregation and ordained as ministers John Brenneman and Joseph Goldschmidt. Services were held in the homes of members until 1884 when a simple frame meetinghouse, which served until 1946 was erected near this site." Roth notes "in Steinmann Mennonite Church Cemetery".