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Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997.It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in the Dutch Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the Revolutionary War in the ...
Dan Seals sang "Mason Dixon line" and the song symbolically references the line. [51] 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. [52] Tom Lehrer references the Mason–Dixon line in his song "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie ...
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 ...
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 border between ...
In 1767, Mason’s and Dixon’s survey party arrived at the Youghiogheny River, almost 200 miles from the “post marked west,” and built a tower of rocks they gathered from its banks.
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is a historic marker located near Core, West Virginia and Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, United States. Located on the boundary between Monongalia County, West Virginia and Greene County, Pennsylvania , [ 1 ] it identifies the terminal station established by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon on Brown's Hill.
Dixon's name may be the origin for the nickname Dixie used in reference to the Southern United States [13]. Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two title characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon. The song Sailing to Philadelphia from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also refers to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.
Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters; Mason and Dixon, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community; Mason-Dixon Trail, hiking trail along the line; Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., an independent polling firm; Mason Dixon (band), a country music band from the 1980s