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Do You Know What
The Mason-Dixon
Line Really Is?
Everybody talks about it, but few know just where the MasonDixon Line runs, and fewer still know how it came about.
In popular American parlance, the Mason-Dixon Boundary divides North from South—an assumption based largely on the mistaken belief that during fho Civil War it separated the Confederate Sates from die Union.
In fact, the line was drawn to end an early colonial land dispute. It extends, from east to West, between Pennsylvania and Maryland with a shorter branch reaching southward between Maryland and Delaware. All three States were on the Union side. }
The old border is again in die news because of plans to restore its markers for a 200th anniversary celebration in 1963.
The Mason-Dixon lane was named for two English surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. Skilled mathematicians and astronomers, they were invited to die American Colonies in 1763 to mark the boundary finally agreed upon by long-feuding proprietors , and heirs of Maryland and Pennsylvania l^nd grants. The controversy began, in the
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