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The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, constituting parts of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (part of Virginia until 1863).
Mason-Dixon Line, originally the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the United States. In the pre- Civil War period it was regarded, together with the Ohio River, as the dividing line between slave states south of it and free-soil states north of it. The term Mason and Dixon Line was first used in congressional debates leading to the ...
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Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997.
- Edward Gray, Thomas Pynchon
- 1997
Jan 25, 2024 · The Mason-Dixon Line—America’s Great Divide. Acclaimed historian Edward G. Gray, who passed away unexpectedly at the end of 2023, was an award-winning cultural historian and a professor of early American history at Florida State University. The Wall Street Journal called his latest book, Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation, “a magisterial ...
Sep 30, 2019 · The Mason-Dixon Line also called the Mason and Dixon Line is a boundary line that makes up the border between Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Over time, the line was extended to the Ohio River to make up the entire southern border of Pennsylvania.
Jul 15, 2021 · Mason and Dixon, who were Englishmen, were hired in 1763 by the King of England to settle a land dispute between the aristocratic colonial families, Quaker William Penn II and the Charles Calvert of Maryland. The two families quarreled and fought over land for decades.
Oct 24, 2020 · Although the Mason-Dixon line is most commonly associated with the division between the northern and southern (free and pro-slavery, respectively) states during the 1800s and American Civil War-era, the line was delineated in the mid-1700s to settle a property dispute.
