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The disputants engaged an expert British team, astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, to survey what became known as the Mason–Dixon line. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It cost the Calverts of Maryland and the Penns of Pennsylvania £3,512 9/ – (equivalent to £571,700 in 2023) to have 244 miles (393 km) surveyed with such accuracy.
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 ...
The title track is drawn from Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, a novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, [3] the two English surveyors who established the border separating Pennsylvania and Delaware from Maryland and Virginia in the 1760s.
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon spent four grueling years doing what we were doing now: clambering up mountains, cursing under their breath, wondering if what they had set out to do was even ...
Charles Westley Godwin, alongside openers Wyatt ... ended at the stroke of Friday morning with a solid half-hour of foot-stomping rock revelry solely borne south of the Mason-Dixon Line. ...
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
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 ...
George Dixon died in Cockfield on 29 September 1785 at the age of 53 • Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) the brother of George Dixon, Jeremiah Dixon was an astronomer, went to America with Charles Mason in 1763 to survey the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania thereby creating the 'Mason–Dixon line'.