Photograph of Saxon Lutheran Memorial — Photograph by Markkaempfer, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Christian A. Bergt Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Saxon Lutheran Memorial in Frohna, Missouri, commemorates the German Lutheran migration of 1838-1839, and features a number of log cabins and artifacts from that era. The memorial opened in 1962 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Saxon Lutheran Memorial (Frohna, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Listed as. Bergt, Christian A., Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Frohna, Frohna, 63748
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Township. Brazeau township
National Register reference number. 80002387 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Christian A. Bergt Farm: 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Umber Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Unknown	Iron, Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Fountain Bluff Sandstone Exposure	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frohna, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Frohna	$50,000	A tornado touched down briefly between Frohna and Altenburg lifting the roof off a lumber yard building. Structural damage was also reported to a local cable company building.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Frohna	$10,000	Several tree tops were broken off in Frohna and Altenburg. Live ten-inch tree trunks were snapped. Trampolines were moved. Power outages occurred on the west side of Altenburg.
November 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Frohna	$1,000	Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph in this brief tornado. Numerous small to medium trees and tree limbs were snapped.
April 2000	Hail	Frohna	-	The severe storm produced hail up to golf ball size over southeast Perry County before moving across the Mississippi River into Jackson County, IL.
August 2007	Hail	Frohna	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Frohna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Concordia Log Cabin College	1.9 miles	1978
Mack's Chapel Cemetery	3.9 miles	2018
Tower Rock	5.5 miles	1970
Eggers and Company General Store	5.7 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.