Photos courtesy of Myra Boehm MorelloThe John and Anna Boehm family portrait with the patriarch and matriarch seated in front. Standing in back left to right: George, Wenzel, Joe, John C., Margarette, Frank, Anna, Amanda, Paulina and Katherine.
It was in the late 1940s when Muzzie Boehm set about the task of building a new home on his property, situated just off Anoka County Road 23 and Kettle River Boulevard on what is known as Boehm’s Corner. As Boehm went about the excavation, he uncovered remnants of the foundation where a hotel had once stood.
Old bricks, big iron kettles, white clay pipes and even a 2-cent piece were found. It was a flashback to a time more than a century earlier, when Boehm’s Corner was the centerpiece for a progressive plan to plant a village in what today is the city of Columbus.broadstreet.zone(48036);
It was the vision of two early pioneer developers:
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