Thomas Jefferson immediately saw the new significance of the Mason-Dixon Line ... prior to the Civil War, the Line became the goal of every slave seeking freedom in the North along the Underground ...

That's a good thing. Now New Freedom, right over the Mason-Dixon Line from Maryland, is opening a place to show off its historical artifacts... . In fact, its position on the border - the first ...

a section of Maryland Route 624 runs smack down the Mason-Dixon Line — York County, Pa., is on one side of the road, Harford County, Md., on the other. In New Freedom, Pa., which got its name ...

Surveyors will make a new record of the stone markers that Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon ... Line was for thousands of African Americans the point where they escaped from slavery into freedom.

PITTSBURGH — A group of surveyors from Pennsylvania and Maryland starting this year plan to create a new record of what might be America’s most famous border: the Mason-Dixon Line. Members of ...

It is 250 years since America's Mason-Dixon Line was completed ... It represents the first geodetic survey in the New World." Miner's son Dixon from Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, and Mason ...

On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line — the old American border between slavery and freedom - walking ...

they had now made it to freedom, although bounty hunters regularly crossed the line in search of fugitives and dragged them back into slavery.” Englishmen Mason (an astronomer) and Dixon (a ...

Precisely 2½ centuries ago, two English surveyors — Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon — completed work on a boundary line that resolved a long, bitter dispute between the colonial proprietors ...