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032: The Line Between Pennsylvania and Maryland


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The year: 1767

This episode is full of drama and scandal amongst the colonies when someone finally reads a contract. Randi covers the context including beavers as well as  the audacity of William Penn.  Why did  Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason have to come physically mark the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland ? Find out in this episode! 

Sources: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrmFnuoG4N0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaopt5b_6ko

https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/our-most-famous-border-mason-dixon-line

https://www.mdhistory.org/when-maryland-almost-got-philadelphia-the-remarkable-story-of-the-mason-dixon-line/

https://www.argomaps.org/stories/mason-dixon-survey/

https://www.risingsunmd.org/department/division.php?structureid=51

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