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The Mason–Dixon line, where the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail becomes the York County Heritage Trail near New Freedom, Pennsylvania. 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 ...
Slave states and free states. An animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories, 1789–1861 (see separate yearly maps below). The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery ...
The Mason–Dixon line – another line linked to the slave-free division in the U.S. The 49th parallel north – another important parallel of latitude in American history, since it became the boundary between the United States and Canada from northern Minnesota all the way west to the Pacific Ocean at Puget Sound.
The Penn–Calvert boundary dispute (also known as Penn vs. Baltimore) was a long-running legal conflict between William Penn and his heirs on one side, and Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and his heirs on the other side. The overlapping nature of their charters of land in Colonial America required numerous attempts at mediation, surveying ...
Finding a stone that had been lost for 70 years required half a breezy morning, conversations with a few friendly strangers, and the reliable guidance of Google Maps. Compared to Mason and Dixon ...
Charles Mason. Charles Mason (25 April 1728 [1] – 25 October 1786) was a British-American astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his survey with Jeremiah Dixon of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (1764–1768). The ...
Historical markers. Pa. 416 at Markes, junction of Mercersburg & Lamar Rds. PA 416 at Markes, junction of Mercersburg & Lamar Rds. near PSU Mont Alto campus, approx. 120 yds. E of Slabtown Rd. on south side of PA 233. US 11 at Kriner, at Trickling Spgs. Creamery, S of Chambersburg. Blair's Valley Rd., about 100 yds. N of state line.
Stealing Freedom Along the Mason–Dixon Line: Thomas McCreary, the Notorious Slave Catcher from Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Fiske, David. Solomon Northup's Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016.