This is where Pennsylvania meets Maryland at the Mason-Dixon Line. |
Sign where I crossed the Mason-Dixon Line into Maryland. |
This is a mile-marker with the Maryland side showing on the left. |
Every fifth stone bears the coat-of-arms of either Calvert or Penn. |
This is known as the Star-Gazers' Stone at Embreeville, PA. Click on the photo to read the content of the plaque. |
A map showing the location of the Mason-Dixon Line. |
cated measuring devices and found to be remarkably accurate. The new surveyors then reset the milestones in concrete bases and new stones were added for any that were missing. To this day, the Mason-Dixon Line still divides the northern states from the southern states. On November 14, 1963, during the bicentennial of the Mason-Dixon Line, President John F. Kennedy opened a newly completed section of Interstate 95 where it crossed the Maryland-Delaware border along the Mason-Dixon Line. Eight days later he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The two sections of Interstate 95, on either side of the border, along the Mason-Dixon Line, were later named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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