9 ottob 1767 anni - Surveying of the "Mason–Dixon line", which will
later become the traditional division between
the northern and southern states of the United
States, is completed by Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon after four years, initially to
settle a boundary dispute between the colonies
of Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Descrizione:
The survey party is halted at Dunkard Creek when a chief of the Mohawk Indians tells them that they are in Native American territory and that the Mohawks guiding the property "would not proceed one step further Westward"; the line, slightly west the 80th meridian west, is now part of the boundary between Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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