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Dundalk got its name from a bell founder's Irish hometown
Dundalk, Maryland
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Henry McShane, an immigrant from County Louth, set up a bell foundry on the Patapsco in 1856 out where nobody had built anything yet. When the railroad reached the foundry and asked for a depot name, the McShanes gave it the name of the town Henry came from and nailed the sign to a tree. Steel and shipbuilding turned the depot into the largest unincorporated community in Maryland by 1960, and one of Baltimore's first inner ring suburbs.
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