Mason–Dixon line
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title:
Mason–Dixon line
text:
The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as part of the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in the colonial United States. The largest portion of the Mason–Dixon line, along the southern Pennsylvania border, later became informally known as the boundary between the Southern slave states and Northern
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description:
Surveyed border line between U.S. states of Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line
date created:
2002-09-08T15:18:41Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T21:16:21Z
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