The Mason & Dixon Line: Part 1
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
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Just us as we walk in the path of the famous surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon along the famous Mason & Dixon Line as we attempt to find crown stone 115 in Blair Valley, MD
Mile Stone: (39.722379, -77.936518)
Crown Stone: (39.722379, -77.955273)
Sources:
Report On The Resurvey Of The Maryland-Pennsylvania Boundary Part of The Mason And Dixon Line - By: Mason and Dixon Line Resurvey Commission & Otto Hilgard Tittmann
Mason and Dixon Line - By J.H. Stoner (read in front of the Kittochtinny Historical Society on October 25th, 1923 and published in Volume X of their "Papers Read Before The Society)
Frontier Country - By Patrick Spero
Fantastic work, Dakota! Very glad you kept your promise & didn't fall off the cliff again.
Thank you Katie!! I will continue to try to keep my promise. I am looking forward to having you as a guest on the channel!! I'll try to keep the hail and rain at bay for our adventure together though. Haha
The 3 requirements of a Dakota Bricker adventure: a history lesson, a weather event (rain, snow, wind-mini tornado), and physical activity (biking, hiking, kayaking).
Haha!!! A Bricker adventure indeed!! This was a perfect example.
Excellent 2 part series. The Mason Dixon line actually goes through a pal of mine parents property.
Cool!! I hope if he has a stone on the property he takes care of it.
@@whatinthehistory5375 I'm not sure, now u got me wondering, so I will ask him. There place juat coming out of hancock on Pennsylvania avenue
He may have a stone because they set them every mile until Sideling Hill I believe.
So much struggling for a mile. I mention this because you have to remember that Mason and Dixon were not alone like you two. They had their equipment for surveying, supplies, and other people. To move all of this they had to use wagons, be it hand or horse drawn. Can you imagine having to move through the forest of the Iroquois with all that just to draw a line on a map. And that line may I add was not off by much in many places by today's modern GPS. And poor Mason thought the forest or the natives would kill them all.
Yes!! As I said in the video they had a large team of surveyors, wood cutters, and workers along with them. To move equipment they had wagons but had to also use packhorses and sleds as they travelled over the mountains. They had to cut a large straight line through the wilderness. It would have been a tedious endeavor and a daunting task for them!!
The twelve mile circle was measured from the steps of the Courthouse in New Castle Del. In @ 1680s Wm Penn sold what was called the Nottingham Lots . There were 37 lots , one lot # 30 (500 Acres was given by Wm Penn as Common Land for a Meeting House to be located on it. It was built around 1701 and is still being used at times. Located at the junction of Rt272 and Rt 273 Chrome , Md. The lots ran from the North East creek west to the Octorara creek. My Gr Gr Gr Gr Grandfather Randal Janney bought lots 15 and 34 .. All most all the land ended up below the Mason Dixon Line in Cecil Co. Md
Thanks for sharing your history!
Very informative on things I driven by and seen most of my life and wondered about . Makes me think about the kings marker stone just a few miles south of the Maryland line from where you where at.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy my videos. I am unfamiliar with the kings marker stone. What is that?
@@whatinthehistory5375 it was a land grant the king gave someone in his court for a wedding gift i think it took in 186 Square miles i have a pic of it
I have never heard of that! Is the stone some sort of marker of a boundary? Where is it at?
@@whatinthehistory5375 it's a stone marker take rt. 75 into Maryland turn on to st.psull rd .go about 2 mile second rd. On right in a field back off rd. On left
I have ouc. Of it i had a relative who was work on a construction crew cleaning out fence rows and told me about it farmer had it marked off so they wouldn't destroy it
Enjoyed both videos.😊 Learning experience for me. I am a daughter of Almost Heaven, West Virginia Mountains. My family predates ancestors predates The Civil War. Before Virginia split in to two different states. My great grandmother had Civil War Uniforms from our relatives that fought in The Civil War. We have the Tin Types. I'm getting off the subject a small bit!! Back in 1968 my family and a friend went to visit a stone called "The Fairfax Stone".. wondering if it might be of interest to you. This information that I'm giving you is what I found on Wikipedia. Since it was a number of years ago since my family visited and details are a bit hazy. Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park is a West Virginia state park commemorating the Fairfax Stone, a surveyor's marker and boundary stone at the source of the North Branch of the Potomac River. The original stone was placed on October 23, 1746[3] to settle a boundary dispute between Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and the English Privy Council concerning the Northern Neck of Virginia. It determined the proprietorship and boundaries of a large tract of mostly unsurveyed land in the English colonies of Maryland and Virginia. (Wiki). Thank you again for sharing these interesting Videos !!😊
Thank you for sharing about the Fairfax stone! I was there a long time ago as a boy. I remember jumping across the Potomac River from West Virginia to Maryland at the headwaters of the Potomac. Haha
Sorry for typo..😉
I'm more confused after watching it, . . Than before I started. But
I felt like I met 2 new friends! I'm your BRANDON OUT WEST
Jeremiah dixon is one of my ancestors and we still live in his birth place of cockfield county durham
That is so cool!! Thank you for watching and sharing! It is so cool to hear from someone who shares a name and lineage with a piece of such iconic American history!
When will Part 2 be posted?
Tomorrow around 1 in the afternoon. At least that's my goal.
Let's go Brandon
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Pynchon
Thieves in wigs and dresses.
How ya figure?
100% They thrived off the backs of their subjects. Doubtful they are thriving now.
I'm enjoying your video but NOT all your giggling! Such a turn off!