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The Mason Dixon Line
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The Mason Dixon line, named after the two surveyors who created it in the 1760s, is a boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland that continues to be admired for its incredible accuracy, even by modern surveyors.
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The Mason Dixon Line was created to settle a land dispute between the Calvert family of Maryland and the Penn family of Pennsylvania, but the earliest maps that mapped the 40th parallel were incorrect.
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The Mason Dixon Line was created to settle a land dispute between the Calvert family of Maryland and the Penn family of Pennsylvania, but the earliest maps that mapped the 40th parallel were incorrect.
ChapterThe Mason Dixon Line
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The Mason-Dixon Line was a disputed partition between the British colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland for decades until the King of England commissioned two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to determine the boundary in 1763.
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The Mason-Dixon Line was a disputed partition between the British colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland for decades until the King of England commissioned two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to determine the boundary in 1763. The surveyors spent 58 months living in tents and using modern equipment to identify a 233-mile stretch, which is still considered remarkably accurate to this day.