St. Anselm's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site near

Berwick, North Dakota Berwick is a populated place in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. It is the nearest community to St. Anselm's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site, or at least was the most salient when that historic site was listed on the National Re ...

, United States, was listed on the

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in 1989. It is a historic site within a cemetery that includes

wrought-iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%), or 0.25 for low carbon "mild" steel. Wrought iron is manufactured by heating and melting high carbon cast iron in an ...

crosses. The NRHP listing included 69

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. It includes work by Joseph B. Klein and John Krim, both of Pierce County. They were among a number of "German-Russian blacksmiths in central North Dakota" who developed individual styles in their crosses and whose "work was known for miles around them."

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Anselm's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota German-Russian culture in North Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Pierce County, North Dakota