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Walkin' the Line

Author : William Ecenbarger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050263618

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If the Mason-Dixon Line could talk, here are the stories. It would tell. Pulitzerprize winning reporter and travel writer Bill Ecenbarger has walked the Mason-Dixon line - from its beginning on Fenwick Island, Delaware, to its end at Brown's Hill, Pennsylvania - diverting left and right to Interview the people who live along its border. The line was surveyed between 1763 and 1768 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to settle a dispute between Robert Penn and Lord Calvert, whose family owned what is now the state of Maryland. In 1780, Pennsylvania passed a law to abolish slavery, making the Mason-Dixon Line the divider between free and slave states. From that moment, it also became a lightning rod for racial conflict that continues to this day. This unique history/travelogue examines the influence of this great divider, which remains the most powerful symbol separating Yankee from Rebel, oatmeal from grits, North from South.

Boundaries

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763656126

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The Mason-Dixon Line’s history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country’s history from its founding to today. We live in a world of boundaries — geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America’s most enduring boundaries is the Mason-Dixon Line, most associated with the divide between the North and the South and the right to freedom for all people. Sibert Medal–winning author Sally M. Walker traces the tale of the Mason-Dixon Line through family feuds, brave exploration, scientific excellence, and the struggle to define a cohesive country. But above all, this remarkable story of surveying, marking, and respecting lines of demarcation will alert young history buffs to their guaranteed right and responsibility to explore, challenge, change, and defend the boundaries that define them.

The Mason-Dixon Line

Author : John Davenport
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mason-Dixon Line
ISBN : 9780791078303

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Looks at the history of the boundary which served as the barrier between the North and the South and represented the tensions over slavery.

Drawing the Line

Author : Edwin Danson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119141822

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The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Danson’s definitive history of the creation of the Mason - Dixon Line to reflect new research and archival documents that have come to light in recent years. Features numerous updates and revisions reflecting new information that has come to light on surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon Reveals the true origin of the survey’s starting point and the actual location of the surveyors’ observatory in Embreeville Offers expanded information on Mason and Dixon’s transit of Venus adventures, which would be an important influence on their future work, and on Mason’s final years pursuing a share of the fabulous Longitude prize, and his death in Philadelphia Includes a new, more comprehensive appendix describing the surveying methods utilized to establish the Mason-Dixon Line

The Mason and Dixon Line

Author : Hubertis Maurice Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Mason-Dixon Line
ISBN : UOM:39015056560058

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Mason Adn Dixon's Line: a History

Author : James Veech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Mason-Dixon Line
ISBN : UOMDLP:aav9486:0001.001

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The History of Mason and Dixon's Line

Author : John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Maryland
ISBN : CHI:082918679

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The History of Mason and Dixon's Line by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe Pdf

The story of the demarcation of the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania that became the dividing line between free and slave states. Latrobe was a lawyer, inventor, and speaker; he was also president of the American Colonization Society (1853-90), founder of the Maryland Historical Society, and a central figure in the movement to colonize the Republic of Liberia.

The original Dixon's line, or, Dixey land

Author : Edward Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015096367886

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Exploring the Mason Dixon Line

Author : John Layton
Publisher : American History Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0984225641

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King Charles I of England granted the Calvert Family a charter for the Colony of Maryland in 1632. Forty-nine years later, in 1681, Charles II awarded the Penn Family a similar charter for Pennsylvania. However, the ambiguity of the language and lack of precision in both grants sowed the seeds of dispute over a sixty-nine mile parcel of land between the 39th and 40th degrees of North Latitude. Had the Calverts prevailed, part of the City of Philadelphia would now be in Maryland, and had the Penns succeeded Baltimore would today be in the state of Pennsylvania! Arguments between the opposing parties dragged on for more than half a century before the English Courts finally issued a decree: Neither the Calverts nor the Penns would prevail; the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania would be a line of latitude located fifteen miles due south of the most southern point in the city of Philadelphia. As a result, in 1763 two British mathematicians and surveyors-Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon-were commissioned to accurately survey and mark the 244- mile boundary between the two colonies.We all have referred to the resulting Mason Dixon Line in casual conversation as the line that divides Pennsylvania and Maryland, or perhaps as the line between the free and slave states during the Civil War. But what do we actually know about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, and why is an imaginary line named after them? Author Jack Layton decided to find out. Over the course of several years he literally walked the line, recording his observations and taking revealing photographs along the entire route. The results-informative, entertaining, ironic and amusing-form the heart of this book. Luckily for us, Charles Mason was a meticulous man who kept a detailed journal of his remarkable experiences in the New World. Mr. Layton used his daily record, kept during the three years that he and his partner spent traipsing through the mountains and valleys of America, as the backbone for this book, with liberal use of direct quotations. Amazingly, some of what the men saw and described has not changed much in the intervening two-and-a-half centuries, while other sights would not be recognizable at all today. Enjoy a trip back to colonial America. Join Jack Layton as he takes a walk in the footsteps of history, following the path blazed by two men whose names and the boundary they surveyed are today a household word-the Mason Dixon Line!

Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line

Author : David Anderson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462880638

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Annual Report of the Secretary of War

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2980358

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Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015067170566

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Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .

Boundaries

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763670368

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The Mason-Dixon Line’s history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country’s history from its founding to today. We live in a world of boundaries — geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America’s most enduring boundaries is the Mason-Dixon Line, most associated with the divide between the North and the South and the right to freedom for all people. Sibert Medal–winning author Sally M. Walker traces the tale of the Mason-Dixon Line through family feuds, brave exploration, scientific excellence, and the struggle to define a cohesive country. But above all, this remarkable story of surveying, marking, and respecting lines of demarcation will alert young history buffs to their guaranteed right and responsibility to explore, challenge, change, and defend the boundaries that define them.

East of the Mason-Dixon Line

Author : Roger E. Nathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Delaware
ISBN : 0924117168

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The Dixon Line

Author : Dixon Gayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : UOM:39015073811617

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