The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763...
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Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration...
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called the Mason–Dixon line. Dixon was born in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 1733, one of seven children, to George Dixon, a coal mine...
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American history, particularly through his survey with Jeremiah Dixon of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania...
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Mason Dixon may refer to: Mason–Dixon line separating Delaware and Pennsylvania from Maryland, surveyed 1763–1767 Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas...
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it is below the Mason–Dixon line. If the origin of the term Dixie is accepted as referring to the region south and west of that line (which excludes Delaware...
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Delaware Wedge (category Mason–Dixon line)
extension of the east–west portion of the Mason–Dixon line, on the west by the north–south portion of the Mason–Dixon line, and on the southeast by the Twelve-Mile...
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southern endpoint of the Mason–Dixon Line. Penn–Calvert Boundary Dispute The Wedge The Twelve-Mile Circle Mason–Dixon line Nicholas Wainwright, "Tale...
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predominantly from states bordering the eponymous Mason–Dixon line. A similarly named Mason-Dixon Athletic Conference began play in NCAA Division II...
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Rockabilly (section North of the Mason-Dixon Line)
which consisted of "hillbilly" vocals and instrumentation with a boogie bass line. After World War II, The Maddox Brothers and Rose were at "the leading edge...
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History of Maryland (section Mason–Dixon Line)
surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to establish a boundary between the colonies. They surveyed what became known as the Mason–Dixon Line, which became...
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Benjamin Chew (section Mason–Dixon line)
Boundary Commission oversaw the development and completion of the Mason–Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. On June 19, 1754, the Albany Congress...
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Star Gazers' Stone (category Mason–Dixon line)
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...
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White Clay Creek State Park (section Mason–Dixon Line)
Portions of the Mason–Dixon line run through White Clay Creek State Park and the park preserves several historic resources associated with the line. The starting...
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Maryland—Pennsylvania state line, which once marked the Mason–Dixon line. A variant name was "Mason-Dixon". A post office called Mason And Dixon was established in...
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shortly before ending at Chadds Ford. It is named for the historic Mason–Dixon line, which it crosses twice. About one-third of the route follows roads...
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River. A small portion of the circle, known as the "Arc Line," forms part of the Mason-Dixon line in the United States that separates Delaware and Maryland...
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(disambiguation) Masson (disambiguation) Justice Mason (disambiguation) Mason-Dixon line William Mason (locomotive), currently on display at the Baltimore...
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line was drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus returned from his maiden voyage to the Americas. The Mason–Dixon line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line")...
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of Cancer. Any axis about which an object spins is an imaginary line. Mason–Dixon line, which informally marks pieces of the borders of four U.S. states:...
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Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is a historic marker located near Pentress, West Virginia, United States. Located on the boundary between Monongalia...
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north to Maryland and West Virginia, bordering the Ohio River and Mason–Dixon line, and stretches west to Arkansas and Louisiana. There is no official...
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Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area. It is two miles north of the Mason–Dixon line and close to Camp David and the Raven Rock Mountain Complex. The population...
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Northern panhandle of West Virginia (category Mason–Dixon line)
The northern panhandle is one of the two panhandles in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is a culturally and geographically distinct region of the state...
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Archibald McClean (section Mason-Dixon Line)
native guides and interpreters began surveying what would become the Mason-Dixon line. During this time, McClean became Deputy Surveyor for Western York...
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proposed new country's northern border would roughly coincide with the Mason–Dixon line, and within it were included such cities as Washington, D.C., St. Louis...
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would settle the final boundaries of the Northeastern states. The Mason-Dixon line would be established as the border of slavery, following the border...
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Historically, the South was defined as all states south of the 18th-century Mason–Dixon line, the Ohio River, and 36°30′ parallel. Within the South are different...
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United States, separated from the Northeastern United States by the Mason–Dixon line, or the South of England, which is politically and economically unmatched...
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African-American to play in a college basketball game south of the Mason-Dixon line. In 1950, Cooper and two others--Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Earl...
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