CORE, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Mason-Dixon Historical Park celebrated the 33 rd annual Mason-Dixon Line Festival and Buckwheat Festival on Saturday, with more than a dozen vendors and dozens of ...

Incredibly, Mason and Dixon were successful. The 233-mile line they drew was often accurate to within 100 feet. It was, one historian said, the 18th-century equivalent of putting a man on the moon.

One side read, “This post used as base point in the survey of Mason Dixon Line 1763-1767.” The opposite side read, “Site of post mark’d WEST set up by Mason and Dixon, June 12, 1764.” ...