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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.
Delmar, Maryland, part of the Salisbury Urbanized Area, lies across the Maryland-Delaware border from its twin, Delmar, Delaware, on the Transpeninsular Line. Dover, Delaware, is the Delaware state capital and the peninsula's largest city in terms of population. It is also the county seat of Kent County, DE and is home to Delaware State University.
The border between Maryland and Delaware below Fenwick Island is a land boundary. Ocean City, Maryland occupies the southern tip of the peninsula on which Fenwick Island is situated. Ownership of the land was designated to the state of Delaware in 1926. It was used as part of the coastal defense system during the World War II years.
The town was an unincorporated area between South Bethany and Ocean City, Maryland, until July 1953, when the Delaware General Assembly passed an act to incorporate the town. Local sentiment demanded incorporation to prevent the relentless high-rise development of Ocean City from creeping north into Fenwick Island.
Fenwick Island is a barrier island along the Atlantic Ocean in Delaware and Maryland in the United States. [1] It contains the communities of South Bethany and Fenwick Island in Delaware along with Ocean City, Maryland. [2] [3] Until 1933, it was attached to Assateague Island to the south.
Delmar is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States, on the Maryland border along the Transpeninsular Line.Its motto is "The Little Town Too Big for One State." The population was 1,597 at the 2010 census, an increase of 13.5% over the previous decade.
The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a 1.068-square-mile (684-acre; 2.77 km 2) [1] tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ownership of the land was disputed until 1921; it is now recognized as part of Delaware. [ 2 ]
The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as part of the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in the colonial United States. [1]
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