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Andrew Gold

History of the Mason-Dixon Line / Rising Sun, MD - 0 views

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Mason-Dixon Line

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  • he Mason-Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon 
  • t forms a demarcation line between four U.S. states , forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania , Maryland , Delaware , and West Virginia (then part of Virginia
  • Maryland and Pennsylvania both claimed the land between the 39th and 40th parallels according to the charters granted to each colony
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  • The border conflict between Pennsylvania and Maryland would be known as Cresap's War.
  • As part of the settlement, the Penns and Calverts commissioned the English team of Charles Mason  and Jeremiah Dixon  to survey the newly established boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Provinc
  • e of Maryland, Delaware Colony and parts of Colony and Old Dominion of Virginia.
  • Mason and Dixon's actual survey line began to the south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extended from a benchmark east to the Delaware River and west to what was then the boundary with western Virginia.
  • The Mason-Dixon Line was marked by stones every mile and "crownstones" every five miles, using stone shipped from England. The Maryland side says (M) and the Delaware and Pennsylvania sides say (P). Crownstones include the two coats-of-arms. Today, while a number of the original stones are missing or buried, many are still visible, resting on public land and protected by iron cages.
  • The line was established to end a boundary dispute between the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware.
  • The Mason-Dixon line is made up of four segments corresponding to the terms of the settlement: Tangent Line, North Line, Arc Line, and 39° 43' N parallel
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Mason-Dixon Line

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  • In 1763, to verify the exact location of the border in a relatively inaccessible area, Pennsylvania and Maryland agreed to hire astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon to survey the agreed upon boundaries
  • A continuous line of latitude was the goal, and Mason and Dixon used the stars to chart their path through the rugged terrain. M
  • ason and Dixon were responsible for marking a 233-mile-long boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland and the 83-mile-long line between Maryland and Delaware.
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  • marked their line by stones every mile and "crownstones" every five miles
  • The exact location of the Pennsylvania/Maryland border was set at: 39°43_19.92216_ N. The process took five years and was completed in 1767.
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Mason-Dixon Line

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  • 1763-67 Charl
  • es Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed and marked most of the boundaries between Maryland, Penns
  • ylvania and the Three Lower Counties that became Delaware
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  • Bradley recommended Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to complete the boundary survey
  • Mason was Bradley’s assistant at the observatory, an Anglican widower with two sons
  • Dixon was a skilled surveyor from Durham, a Quaker bachelor whose Meeting had ousted him for his unwillingness to abstain from liquor.
  • 761 Mason and Dixon had sailed together for Sumatra
  • Their major tasks in America would be to survey the exact tangent line northward from the middle point of the transpeninsular line to the twelve-mile arc, and survey the east-west boundary five degrees westward along a line of latitude passing fifteen miles south of the southernmost part of Philadelphia
  • arrived in Philadelphia on November 15th 1763
  • On August 16th 1768 they delivered 200 printed copies of the map of their surveys, as drawn by Dixon,
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