First Stop on M&D Tour

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Near the University of Delaware in Newark, you'll find the Deer Park
                 Inn (108 W. Main St.; 302- 731-5315). The present 
building is believed to
                 be on the site of the St. Patrick's Inn, built in the 
mid- 1700s. A favorite
                 resting place for travelers passing through Newark, the 
inn housed Charles
                 Mason, Jeremiah Dixon and their team of surveyors in 
1764. The
                 Mason-Dixon line, which divided Pennsylvania and 
Maryland, became
                 famous as a line of demarcation between free and slave 
states. Rumor has it
                 that an old Mason and Dixon border marker was once in 
the Deer Park's
                 basement.

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org