Mason and Dixon Line

The original charters granted to the Penn and Calvert families stated unclearly the boundaries between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The dispute caused considerable friction over the years and was eventually submitted to an English court.

In 1760, the families compromised and selected two English astronomers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to survey the common border. In the years between 1763 and 1767, the surveyors ran a line west from the Delaware border for 244 miles. Every fifth milestone bore a replica of the Penn and Calvert coats of arms.

The line was later extended to delineate the border between Pennsylvania and Virginia. In later times, the term "Mason-Dixon Line" connoted the boundary between slave and free states or between North and South.

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... most popular is that it was derived from the word Dixon. The term Mason-Dixon Line has continued in use in the twentieth century to distinguish between Northern and Southern states of the American Union. Source: Macmillan Information Now ...
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Michael Dixon
Quality education, however, began with security and Dixon and other students worked with the Black Panthers to secure Garfield from drugs, guns, and pimps. After Dixon graduated from Garfield, he attended the University of Washington and was ...
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Alabama Governor Frank Dixon
He abolished the pardon, parole, and probation system and created the Pardon and Parole Board. Teacher retirement was established, the state debt was reduced and several new departments were created including Finance, Industrial Relations ...
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