On, Oct. 9, 1767, Mason and Dixon came upon the Catawba War Path, sometimes called the Iroquois Main Road, which ran from Olean, N.Y., to the Cheat River in what is now West Virginia.

Mason and Dixon spent much of the winter ... In 1765, they started on the West Line. It would take them until Oct. 9, 1767, to complete their survey — 233 miles later.

The Mason-Dixon Line is 250 years old - but who were the two British men who created one of America's most famous land borders?

More than 250 years ago, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began mapping out and marking the now-iconic boundary that bears their names. ... The line, surveyed between 1763 and 1767, ...

The line still exists in the same form it did when it was completed in 1767 by surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, creating the borders of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and, eventually ...

One side read, “This post used as base point in the survey of Mason Dixon Line 1763-1767.” The opposite side read, “Site of post mark’d WEST set up by Mason and Dixon, June 12, 1764.” ...

By the time Mason and Dixon finished their work in 1767, they had surveyed over 240 miles of boundary line and placed over 220 stones. Over the years markers have worn down, been damaged, or lost.

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the completion of the famed Mason-Dixon Line, established as the remedy to a contentious boundary dispute between several British colonies in the 1760s. ...

When John McKinley built a one-story house in what was Prince Georges County, he never knew that one day the building would be divided by two states. The house, constructed in 1743 with a thatched ...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2017. There are 74 days left in the year. Highlights in history • In 1767 , the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between colonial Pennsylvania, Marylan… ...

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon would likely be amused that their Mason-Dixon Line that they drew between Pennsylvania and Maryland as a way of separating North and South lives on in name (sort of) ...

Mason and Dixon began their return journey eastward on 20 October 1767 and later submitted a bill for £3,516.9s - estimated as the equivalent of about £500,000 today. But, according to David ...