Mason and Dixon's Line of Fire

By St George, Judith

Publishers Summary:
Tells the story of the sometimes violent boundary disputes between colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania, and how two surveyors established the line that finally brought peace.

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ISBN
978-0-39922-240-5
Publisher
New York : Putnam, c1991.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on December 1, 1991

Gr 6-9 A book that will inform those who mistakenly believe that the Mason-Dixon line was created as a dividing line between slave and free states during the Civil War. From 1763 to 1767 two Englishmen, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, were hired by the sixth Lord Baltimore and William Penn's descendants to survey and establish the line between Pennsylva...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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