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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had no idea cast iron had a political affiliation. They originated as an architectural element to keep walls from moving or sagging away- they’re all over houses in Alexandria for just that purpose. [/quote]

Those are anchor plates. The barnstars that OP is referring to are the decorative ones used on barns in Pennsylvania usually by settlers of German descent (Pennsylvania Deutsch/Dutch). [/quote]

You see cast iron anchor plates on homes in Georgetown and Old Town.  Here are some examples.  They are used on brick homes where there is settling and the brick or concrete wall is bowing (caving out from the wooden supports for the house).  The anchor plates hold the brick or concrete walls to the wooden structure.  Agree that OP is talking about the decorative Barn Stars.  Besides being a thing in the East Coast Amish region it is a thing in parts of the mid-west, too.  All of our relatives who own farms in Iowa and Nebraska have Barn Stars on their barns.  It doesn't matter if they are a livestock or crop farm.  Oddly I almost never see them on barns in southern Virginia where we have a lot of friends with farms.  We don't have them on our barns either.

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