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MarydelVisitors to Marydel can view a crown stone of the famous Mason-Dixon Line. The Maryland Historical Trust notes: "Few lines in American history have had quite the symbolic and actual significance as the line surveyed in 1762 by Messrs. Mason and Dixon to settle the contradictory claims of the Penn and Calvert families. Although the division they made between Maryland and Pennsylvania is more famous than the one between Maryland and Delaware (the part of the line that affects Caroline County), both arose from the same dispute."The county border was marked in 1765 by 34 stones placed at one-mile intervals. Hand-engraved crown stones were placed every five miles. Only ten stones remain at the points designated in 1761 by resolute surveyors, who were stricken with malaria while cutting a 24-foot-wide vista through the dense forests and swamps of Caroline County. Despite the arduous survey, legislation creating Caroline in 1774 mistakenly included a sizable slice of Delaware. Copyright © 2002 J.O.K. Walsh, All rights reserved.
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