[MR] OT trivia

[M'lady Foxy]

the line I know of is somewhere between md line,md and shrewsberry pa.... 


--- On Sun, 9/14/08, Cecilia Jaeger <cecij2 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Cecilia Jaeger <cecij2 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [MR] OT trivia
> To: "'MerryRose'" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 12:01 PM
> I had to Google to get it all. I remembered they were
> surveyors.  My quick
> Google said they were sent from England to settle a border
> dispute between
> the Colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1763.  I lived
> there when I 11
> for about 6 months, never care much about history than.  
> 
> http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/masondixon.htm
> 
> Learn something new ....
> 
> Cassair
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-
> >bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Miriel
> >Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 1:37 PM
> >To: Cecilia Jaeger; MerryRose
> >Subject: Re: [MR] OT trivia
> >
> >These were the gents sent out by the President (I'm
> not sure if it was
> >Lincoln, or the one before him - I suck at social
> studies) to measure
> >'something'
> >
> >Trivia continues: what's that something??
> >
> >Miriel (this is fun)
> >
> >On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Cecilia Jaeger
> <cecij2 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I once lived in a house in Pennsylvania so close
> to the border that there
> >> was a grey and blue on the edge of neighbor's
> property that marked the
> >> line.
> >>
> >> To continue the trivia, who were Mason and Dixon?
> >>
> >> Cassair
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-
> >> >bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Miriel
> >> >Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:19 PM
> >> >To: David Wendelken
> >> >Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> >> >Subject: Re: [MR] OT trivia
> >> >
> >> >Ok, last time I was in school, the Mason Dixon
> line 'separated' Maryland
> >> >and
> >> >states north, like Delaware and Pennsylvania.
> >> >
> >> >Miriel (who is the only southerner in her
> family, by birth)
> >> >
> >> >On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM, David
> Wendelken
> >> ><david_wendelken at nc.rr.com
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Someone mentioned a Marsh Fox.  In the
> part of the south I used to
> >live
> >> >in,
> >> >> that would be local for Master Fox. :)
> >> >>
> >> >> >While I live south of the Mason Dixon
> line
> >> >>
> >> >> Since we've been doing off-topic
> trivia about marshes and swamps, who
> >> >knows
> >> >> where the Mason-Dixon line is?
> >> >>
> >> >> I bet you are wrong!
> >> >>
> >> >> andras
> >> >>
> >> >>
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