[MR] OT trivia

[Curwinus Trevirensis]

This article did not mention the reason for the dispute going to
court. I had heard (when I lived in Maryland) that it erupted over a
trading vessel docking in Philadelphia and asking the people there why
their city was in Maryland. ;-)

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Cecilia Jaeger <cecij2 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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 ....

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