It’s hard to describe the historical and cultural significance of the Mason-Dixon Line. It’s not just a line on a map; it was created to resolve a colonial land dispute, but it came to ...

creating about 200 copies of a map and plan of the surveyed line. Even with the help of the printing press, this took time. So it was that Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon finally boarded a ship ...

It was a bad map. In reality, the 40th parallel actually ... Walker in her book Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation. Meanwhile, settlers near the ...

Could there be a more opportune moment for an authoritative book on the border crisis? No, not that border, and not today’s crisis, but the dispute that once raged over where Pennsylvania ended ...

Limestone monuments marking each mile of the Mason-Dixon Line — a survey line dating back to the 1760s intended to resolve a boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland — tell an import ...

(WBOY) — The Mason-Dixon Historical Park celebrated ... of the day from the beginning of their line which is the corner that you’ll see on a map of Maryland now, and they ended here.” ...

A map of York County in 1770 shows roads radiating ... the range separating today’s Gettysburg and Chambersburg. Until 1800, the Mason-Dixon Line measured 65 miles, defining the county’s ...