Mason and Dixon were pioneers in bringing geodetic astronomy to the American colonies. Through the efforts of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership, we can promote this scientific ...

The Mason-Dixon line is a major part of history, but the majority of the more than 200 stones that mark the line are not on the National Register of Historic Places.Volunteers are trying to change ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I can no longer see Wayne Aubertin, but I can still hear him: his legs thwacking through the underbrush, ...

Seeking inspiration for new places to explore, I looked up historical events of local import that took place on May 25, and as it turns out, there are plenty to choose from. You could argue the 1659 ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A group of surveyors from Pennsylvania and Maryland, starting this year, plan to create a new record of what might be America's most famous border: the Mason-Dixon Line. Members of ...

Joe Napsha Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020 12:00 p.m. | Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020 12:00 p.m. A group of surveyors from Pennsylvania and Maryland starting this year plan to create a new record of what might be ...

(WHTM) — 260 years ago today, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived in Philadelphia to begin their survey of the boundary lines between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It would take them almost five ...

Walker (Secrets of a Civil War Submarine) presents an exhaustively researched account of the people and events surrounding the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line. The author goes back to 16th-century ...

But in the intervening three centuries, as the line came to represent a metaphoric boundary more than a physical one, the stones, which lacked any meaningful government protection, languished. Nicked ...

PITTSBURGH — A group of surveyors from Pennsylvania and Maryland starting this year plan to create a new record of what might be America's most famous border: the Mason-Dixon Line. Members of both ...