The Mason Dixon line was a divide that I knew little about, other in fact that it maybe was also intertwined somehow in the American Civil War. In fact its far more interesting than that ..
Firstly, it was actually drawn by two British boys ..... Baker's son Charles Mason and lapsed Quaker Jeremiah Dixon. They were British scientists, and already known as master surveyors and astronomers, when they were asked to intervene in the long running land dispute between the two American colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1763 AD.
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| The Maryland and Pennsylvania Markers placed every mile and five miles. |
Firstly, it was actually drawn by two British boys ..... Baker's son Charles Mason and lapsed Quaker Jeremiah Dixon. They were British scientists, and already known as master surveyors and astronomers, when they were asked to intervene in the long running land dispute between the two American colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1763 AD.
