Napper Tandy & William Burton Conyngham: Lords of Burtonport in Bloomington, MN

In the 1790s, two famous Irishmen came to a small remote port, named Burtonport, in Northwest Donegal, Ireland. One was William Burton Conyngham, an Irish lord who came to create a new fishing port. The other famous person was Napper Tandy, an Irish revolutionary, who landed with the French Army to attack the British forces in Ireland.