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Dan Seals sang "Mason Dixon line" and the song symbolically references the line. [52] GZA references the "Mason-Dixon Line" in the closing words of his feature verse on Raekwon's song "Guillotine (Swords)" from his debut 1995 album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. [53] Tom Lehrer references the Mason–Dixon line in his song "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie ...
Today, few people outside the region know the Mason-Dixon Line is a tangible boundary; fewer still appreciate the technological triumph it represents. So volunteer surveyors like Aubertin, ...
The Delaware Boundary Markers historic district is located along the state boundary lines between Delaware and Maryland, and between Delaware and Pennsylvania.The district includes 94 contributing sites along the Mason–Dixon line and includes the Transpeninsular Line, Post Marked West site, Tangent Line, the Arc Corner, and the Twelve-Mile Circle.
The Twelve-Mile Circle Diagram of the Twelve-Mile Circle, the Mason-Dixon Line, and The Wedge. The diagram shows the survey lines involved in the disputes, not current borders. The Twelve-Mile Circle is an approximately circular arc that forms most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania. It is a combination of different circular arcs ...
They crossed the Mason–Dixon line into a free state at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The route provided by Harriet Tubman was 1) Bucktown, 2) East New Market, 3) Poplar Neck, 4) Milford, Delaware, 5) Dover, 6) some went through Smyrna to get to Wilmington, 7) Wilmington to 8) Philadelphia, followed by points north along the Underground Railroad ...
The Transpeninsular Line (at approximately 38°27′ N) is a surveyed line, the eastern half of which forms the north–south border between Delaware and Maryland. The border turns roughly north from the midpoint of the line towards the Twelve-Mile Circle , which forms much of the remainder of the Delaware land border.
Star Gazers' Stone located on Star Gazers' Farm near Embreeville, Pennsylvania, USA, marks the site of a temporary observatory established in January 1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line. The stone was placed by Mason and Dixon about 700 feet (213 m) north of the Harlan House, which ...
Three of its four singles charted, which were "Sweet Little Shoe" (peaked at number 62), "Mason Dixon Line" (peaked at number 43), and "When Love Comes Around the Bend" (peaked at number 51). [2] The B-side to "Mason Dixon Line", titled "Be My Angel", was later a non-album single for Lionel Cartwright , peaking at number 63 in late 1992.