MD: Fate of the markers

[Michael Baum]

I just thought I might mention for the history fans amoung us that on October 14 the _News Journal_ (Wilmington.Del.) ran an interesting piece on the front page on the fate of the original Mason and Dixon line markers. Or at least those on the Delaware border. J.L. Miller of the paper's Dover bureau based most of the article on a guided tour of the Line conducted by a Mr. Roger Nathan.

An accompanying graphic showing the entire Line is a tad out in that it shows the line extending all the way to western Pennsylvania border, but the article has some interesting tidbits. Such as that Boundary Arc Stone 1 is buried 6 feet down under a specially constructed manhole in the middle of the road near Pat's Discount Liqours (a local landmark.) Or that one stone was defaced ages ago by a Delaware partisan trying to convert the Pennsylvania "P" on one face of the marker into a "D".

No mention, oddly, of the markers as a focus and pathway for Telluric Energies.

Alackaday, although the News Journal is sufficiently with it to have a web site (www.delawareonline.com), there seems to be no search mechanism for finding past-date articles.

-- maab, still a delawarean at heart