Last Bell Foundry

Last Bell Foundry (HM2JZE)

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N 38° 47.247', W 76° 13.18'

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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Henry McShane started his Baltimore foundry in 1856, and by the late 1800s McShane Bell Foundry employed 90 people and produced tens of thousands of bells and chimes for churches, firehouses, public buildings and fog-alarm bells for lighthouses, steamboats and ships. Now in Glen Burnie, Maryland, McShane Bell Foundry is the only remaining maker of large bells with inside clappers in the US. This one strikes a tone between C and D flat.

This fog bell, inscribed, "U.S.L.H. Establishment" was cast in 1910, just as Congress abolished the United States Lighthouse Board and established the Bureau of Lighthouses under the Department of Commerce. Civilians took over positions formerly held by military officers, many becoming career lighthouses service employees who staffed more than 11,700 navigations aids along the nation's waterways.
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HM NumberHM2JZE
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Placed ByChesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Date Added Monday, August 26th, 2019 at 8:04pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 394069 N 4293896
Decimal Degrees38.78745000, -76.21966667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 47.247', W 76° 13.18'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 47' 14.82" N, 76° 13' 10.8" W
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